Jerico Springs, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Jerico Springs, 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 Jerico Springs lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Jerico Springs — the short answer
Jerico Springs, Missouri: USDA zone 7a, about 227 days between hard freezes, across 438 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~227
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 438 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 7a is Jerico Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jerico Springs's 227-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jerico Springs
Each reading below is measured for Jerico Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredJerico Springs runs about 227 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
MeasuredJerico Springs sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Jerico Springs is in
Jerico Springs sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Jerico Springs's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Cedar County is mostly Ozark Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Jerico Springs
Every plant below cleared Jerico Springs's own zone 7a and its 227-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Jerico Springs?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — 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 Jerico Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jerico Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T33N R28W 09AAD1Nitrate · 0.5 mi
- MFA JERICO SPRINGS FARROWCAFO · 2.7 mi
- NORTH VIEW SWINE LLCCAFO · 2.8 mi
- HORIZON PORK - MISSOURI SOW CENTER INC.CAFO · 3.5 mi
- TWISTER HILLCAFO · 3.9 mi
- TURKEY RUNCAFO · 4.2 mi
- SYLVANIA GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.6 mi
- Unknown - Barite + ZincMining · 7.9 mi
- CHAPMAN MFA SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.1 mi
- T33N R27W 34DDC1Nitrate · 8.8 mi
- Cox,Pierce,+ Thomas DiggingsMining · 9.0 mi
- T33N R27W 35Nitrate · 9.0 mi
3 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Jerico Springs'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 Jerico Springs.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Jerico Springs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jerico Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Jerico Springs
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Jerico Springs average
Your land is one point inside Jerico Springs
Everything above resolves to Jerico Springs as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 438 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 town 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 Jerico Springs Average
Jerico Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Jerico Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Jerico Springs
- ●Frost dates read at Jerico Springs's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jerico Springs's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Jerico Springs
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Jerico Springs, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Jerico Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Jerico Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Jerico Springs average
How we know this about Jerico Springs
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Jerico Springs’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 town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-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 Jerico Springs
When does frost risk typically end in Jerico Springs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jerico Springs typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Jerico Springs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jerico Springs typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 227 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jerico Springs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jerico Springs sees about 227 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 25, about 192 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jerico Springs?
The federal record around Jerico Springs shows 20 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (10), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.5 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 Jerico Springs?
From about Oct 9 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 Nov 8 (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 Nov 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Jerico Springs's scale — its 7a band and its 227-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jerico Springs'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 Jerico Springs’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Jerico Springs's own scale — its own ~227-day season between 28°F freezes, the 438 acres it covers and 20 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jerico Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Jerico Springs's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 8 and the ~227-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 20 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jerico Springs, the closest Nitrate record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jerico Springs's boundary and the 438 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~227-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Jerico Springs sits in the Central Irregular Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Jerico Springs's 438 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cedar County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cedar 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 Cedar County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jerico Springs's 438 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jerico Springs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 438 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.5 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 Jerico Springs-wide figureread your own land →
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