Kissee Mills, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Kissee Mills, 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 Kissee Mills lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kissee Mills — the short answer
Kissee Mills, Missouri: USDA zone 7a, about 226 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- 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
- ~226
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 6K 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 Kissee Mills's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kissee Mills's 226-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kissee Mills
Each reading below is measured for Kissee Mills itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKissee Mills runs about 226 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
MeasuredKissee Mills 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 Kissee Mills is in
Kissee Mills sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kissee Mills's own centroid rather than borrowed from Taney County.
What Grows in Kissee Mills
Every plant below cleared Kissee Mills's own zone 7a and its 226-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kissee Mills?
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 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (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. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Kissee Mills
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kissee Mills. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T23N R20W 01DAA1Nitrate · 0.5 mi
- ROBERTSON 66Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- NEXT TO KISSEE MILLS GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- WYATT CABINETRY AND CUSTOM WOODWORKINGBrownfields · 2.7 mi
- FORSYTH CLEANERSBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- T24N R20W 34BAC1Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- T23N R20W 04ACC1Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- EDGEWATER BEACH RESORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- T24N R20W 32DAB1Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- CITY OF FORSYTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- FORSYTH AMOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- WHITE OAK STATION #43Underground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kissee Mills'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 Kissee Mills.
Total Sites
114
within ~10 miles of Kissee Mills
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kissee Mills
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kissee Mills
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Kissee Mills
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Your land is one point inside Kissee Mills
Everything above resolves to Kissee Mills as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K 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 Kissee Mills Average
Kissee Mills Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Kissee Mills
- ●One soil character for all of Kissee Mills
- ●Frost dates read at Kissee Mills's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kissee Mills's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kissee Mills
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kissee Mills, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Kissee Mills — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Kissee Mills
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 Kissee Mills’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 Kissee Mills
When does frost risk typically end in Kissee Mills?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kissee Mills typically lands around Mar 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Kissee Mills?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kissee Mills 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 226 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kissee Mills?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kissee Mills sees about 226 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 25, about 191 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kissee Mills?
The federal record around Kissee Mills is a meaningful one — 114 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (60), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.5 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Kissee Mills?
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 Kissee Mills's scale — its 7a band and its 226-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kissee Mills'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 Kissee Mills’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Kissee Mills's own scale — its own ~226-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,629 acres it covers and 114 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kissee Mills's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kissee Mills's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 8 and the ~226-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 114 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kissee Mills, the closest Nitrate record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kissee Mills's boundary and the 5,629 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~226-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kissee Mills's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kissee Mills's 5,629 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Taney County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Taney 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 Taney County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kissee Mills's 5,629 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kissee Mills you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,629 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 Kissee Mills-wide figureread your own land →
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