Marble Hill, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Marble Hill, 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 Marble Hill lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Marble Hill — the short answer
Marble Hill, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~222
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 1K 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 Marble Hill's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Marble Hill's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Marble Hill
Each reading below is measured for Marble Hill itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMarble Hill runs about 222 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
MeasuredMarble Hill 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 Marble Hill is in
Marble Hill sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Marble Hill's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bollinger County.
What Grows in Marble Hill
Every plant below cleared Marble Hill's own zone 6b and its 222-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Marble Hill?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — 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 Marble Hill
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Marble Hill. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T30N R10E 06 1Nitrate · 600 ft
- COOPER AUTO SUPPLY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- AMERIMART #21Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- SLINKARD'S GAS MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- VAN GENNIP OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- EFTINK SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR # 10202Brownfields · 1000 ft
- RHODES GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- LUTESVILLE MOTOR CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- WILLIAM H. KUSTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- MARBLE HILL LOCATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- TWIN CITY SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Marble Hill'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 Marble Hill.
Total Sites
41
within ~10 miles of Marble Hill
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Marble Hill
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Marble Hill
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Marble Hill, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 27 sites within ~10 miles of Marble Hill. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Marble Hill
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 Marble Hill average
Your land is one point inside Marble Hill
Everything above resolves to Marble Hill as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Marble Hill Average
Marble Hill Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Marble Hill
- ●One soil character for all of Marble Hill
- ●Frost dates read at Marble Hill's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Marble Hill's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Marble Hill
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Marble Hill, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Marble Hill averages can't show:
We read public map data around Marble Hill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Marble Hill average
How we know this about Marble Hill
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 Marble Hill’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 Marble Hill
When does frost risk typically end in Marble Hill?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Marble Hill typically lands around Mar 28, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Marble Hill?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Marble Hill typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 222 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Marble Hill?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Marble Hill sees about 222 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Oct 22, about 187 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Marble Hill?
The federal record around Marble Hill is light — 41 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (27), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles 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 Marble Hill?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Marble Hill's scale — its 6b band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Marble Hill'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 Marble Hill’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Marble Hill's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,059 acres it covers and 41 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Marble Hill's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Marble Hill's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 5 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 41 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Marble Hill, the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Marble Hill's boundary and the 1,059 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~222-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Marble Hill's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Marble Hill's 1,059 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bollinger County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bollinger 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 Bollinger County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Marble Hill's 1,059 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Marble Hill you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,059 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Marble Hill-wide figureread your own land →
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