Lowry City, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lowry City, 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 Lowry City lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lowry City — the short answer
Lowry City, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 225 days between hard freezes, across 657 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- 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 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~225
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 657 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 6b is Lowry City's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lowry City's 225-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lowry City
Each reading below is measured for Lowry City itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLowry City runs about 225 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
MeasuredLowry City sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Lowry City is in
Lowry City sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lowry City's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: St. Clair County is mostly Ozark Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Lowry City
Every plant below cleared Lowry City's own zone 6b and its 225-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lowry City?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Lowry City
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lowry City. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T39N R26W 13DCNitrate · 350 ft
- CITY OF LOWRY CITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- T39N R26W 13DCANitrate · 500 ft
- T39N R26W 13DCA1Nitrate · 500 ft
- PRIME TIME #1002Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- LOWRY CITY BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- SHELBYSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WHITEMAN AFB GOLF-4Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- DEVORES ANTIQUES TRASH AND TREASURESUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- T38N R25W 04CBB1Nitrate · 4.5 mi
- WHITEMAN AFB GOLF-3Underground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- OSCEOLA STANDARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lowry City'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 Lowry City.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lowry City
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lowry City
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lowry City, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Lowry City. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Lowry City
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 Lowry City average
Your land is one point inside Lowry City
Everything above resolves to Lowry City as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 657 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 Lowry City Average
Lowry City Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lowry City
- ●One soil character for all of Lowry City
- ●Frost dates read at Lowry City's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lowry City's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lowry City
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lowry City, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lowry City averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lowry City — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lowry City average
How we know this about Lowry City
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 Lowry City’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 Lowry City
When does frost risk typically end in Lowry City?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lowry City 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 Lowry City?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lowry City typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 225 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lowry City?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lowry City sees about 225 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 24, about 190 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lowry City?
The federal record around Lowry City is light — 41 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (22), the nearest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lowry City?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lowry City's scale — its 6b band and its 225-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lowry City'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 Lowry City’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lowry City's own scale — its own ~225-day season between 28°F freezes, the 657 acres it covers and 41 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lowry City's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lowry City's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 7 and the ~225-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 41 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lowry City, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lowry City's boundary and the 657 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~225-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lowry City 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 Lowry City's 657 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom St. Clair County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom St. Clair 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 St. Clair County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lowry City's 657 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lowry City you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 657 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lowry City-wide figureread your own land →
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