Montier, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Montier, 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 Montier lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Montier — the short answer
Montier, Missouri: USDA zone 7a, about 220 days between hard freezes, across 634 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 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~220
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 634 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 Montier's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Montier's 220-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Montier
Each reading below is measured for Montier itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMontier runs about 220 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
MeasuredMontier 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 Montier is in
Montier sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Montier's own centroid rather than borrowed from Shannon County.
What Grows in Montier
Every plant below cleared Montier's own zone 7a and its 220-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Montier?
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 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 2 — 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.
Documented around Montier
Survey cells within 31 miles of Montier checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 277 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Montier
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Montier. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CRAIG INDUSTRIES INC - TERESITAToxics Release Inventory · 1.9 mi
- OZARK POST & LUMBER INCBrownfields · 2.4 mi
- LUCELLE ORCHARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- T27N R05W 21CAA1Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- T27N R05W 22Nitrate · 4.6 mi
- CITY OF BIRCH TREEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- LUCKYS TRAVEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- BIRCH TREE 66 STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- MISSOURI HARDWOOD FLOORING COUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- BIRCH TREE QUICK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- BARTON MARINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- JEWELL JOHNSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Montier'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 Montier.
Total Sites
66
within ~10 miles of Montier
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Montier
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Montier
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Montier, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Montier — Nitrate (24 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (5 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Montier
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 Montier average
Your land is one point inside Montier
Everything above resolves to Montier as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 634 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 Montier Average
Montier Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Montier
- ●One soil character for all of Montier
- ●Frost dates read at Montier's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Montier's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Montier
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Montier, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Montier averages can't show:
We read public map data around Montier — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Montier average
How we know this about Montier
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 Montier’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 Montier
When does frost risk typically end in Montier?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Montier 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 Montier?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Montier typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 220 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Montier?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Montier sees about 220 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 19, about 185 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Montier?
The federal record around Montier is a meaningful one — 66 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (30), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.9 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 Montier?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Montier's scale — its 7a band and its 220-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Montier'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 Montier’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Montier's own scale — its own ~220-day season between 28°F freezes, the 634 acres it covers and 66 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Montier's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Montier's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 2 and the ~220-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 66 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Montier, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Montier's boundary and the 634 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~220-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Montier's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Montier checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Montier's 634 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Shannon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Shannon 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 Shannon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Montier's 634 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Montier you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 634 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.9 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 Montier-wide figureread your own land →
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