Hurdland, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Hurdland, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Hurdland lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hurdland — the short answer
Hurdland, Missouri: USDA zone 6a, about 210 days between hard freezes, across 213 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~210
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 213 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 6a is Hurdland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hurdland's 210-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hurdland
Each reading below is measured for Hurdland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHurdland runs about 210 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredHurdland sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Hurdland is in
Hurdland sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Hurdland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Knox County.
What Grows in Hurdland
Every plant below cleared Hurdland's own zone 6a and its 210-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hurdland?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Hurdland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hurdland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GLENN LASKE JR.Underground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- KNOX COUNTY PUBLIC WATER & SEWER DIST 1PFAS · 0.9 mi
- T61N R12W 29AAA1Nitrate · 6.3 mi
- RAYMOND BURKHOLDER, JR.CAFO · 6.7 mi
- NORTHEAST MO COOP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
- YESWAY #1136Underground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- VACANT (FORMERLY SERVICE STATION)Underground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- CAHALAN SINCLAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- DARYL BURKHOLDERCAFO · 6.9 mi
- CASEYS GENERAL STORE #2600Underground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- FISHER'S 66 SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.1 mi
- EDINA MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
2 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hurdland's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Hurdland.
Total Sites
15
within ~10 miles of Hurdland
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hurdland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hurdland
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Hurdland
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Your land is one point inside Hurdland
Everything above resolves to Hurdland as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 213 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Hurdland Average
Hurdland Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Hurdland
- ●One soil character for all of Hurdland
- ●Frost dates read at Hurdland's scale: Apr 3 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hurdland's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Hurdland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hurdland average
How we know this about Hurdland
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Hurdland’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Hurdland
When does frost risk typically end in Hurdland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hurdland typically lands around Apr 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 24.
When is the first frost in Hurdland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hurdland typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 210 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hurdland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hurdland sees about 210 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 16, about 175 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hurdland?
The federal record around Hurdland shows 15 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (10), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Hurdland?
From about Sep 30 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hurdland's scale — its 6a band and its 210-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hurdland's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Hurdland’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Hurdland's own scale — its own ~210-day season between 28°F freezes, the 213 acres it covers and 15 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hurdland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hurdland's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Oct 30 and the ~210-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 15 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hurdland, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hurdland's boundary and the 213 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~210-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hurdland's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hurdland's 213 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Knox County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Knox County
- The growing challenges every Missouri grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Missouri
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Knox County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hurdland's 213 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hurdland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 213 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Hurdland-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MissouriHurdland sits outside our named growing regions, so Missouri as a whole is its closest context here.