Naylor, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Naylor, 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 Naylor lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Naylor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Naylor — the short answer
Naylor, Missouri: USDA zone 7b, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 355 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 355 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 7b is Naylor's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Naylor's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Naylor
Each reading below is measured for Naylor itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNaylor runs about 243 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
MeasuredNaylor sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Naylor is in
Naylor sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Naylor's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Ripley County is mostly Ozark Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Naylor
Every plant below cleared Naylor's own zone 7b and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Naylor?
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 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Naylor
Survey cells within 31 miles of Naylor checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 219 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Naylor
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Naylor. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T22N R04E 11 1Nitrate · 1300 ft
- T22N R04E 11BBB1Nitrate · 1400 ft
- MHTDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- T22N R04E 11Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- OXLY MERCANTILEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- HANDI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- PENROD'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- T23N R05E 34DCCNitrate · 5.4 mi
- FLASH MARKET #342Underground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- TURNER'S GROCERY & FEEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- JOHNSON'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- STATE LINE TRUCK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Naylor'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 Naylor.
Total Sites
24
within ~10 miles of Naylor
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Naylor
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Naylor
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.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Naylor
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Naylor
Everything above resolves to Naylor as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 355 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 Naylor Average
Naylor Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Naylor
- ●One soil character for all of Naylor
- ●Frost dates read at Naylor's scale: Mar 17 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Naylor's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Naylor
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Naylor, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Naylor averages can't show:
We read public map data around Naylor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Naylor average
How we know this about Naylor
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 Naylor’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 Naylor
When does frost risk typically end in Naylor?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Naylor typically lands around Mar 17, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Naylor?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Naylor typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Naylor?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Naylor sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 17 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 7 to Nov 1, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Naylor?
The federal record around Naylor shows 24 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (11), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 Naylor?
From about Oct 16 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Naylor's scale — its 7b band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Naylor'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 Naylor’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Naylor's own scale — its own ~243-day season between 28°F freezes, the 355 acres it covers and 24 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Naylor's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Naylor's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 17 and Nov 15 and the ~243-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 24 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Naylor, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Naylor's boundary and the 355 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Naylor sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Naylor 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 Naylor's 355 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ripley County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ripley 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 Ripley County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Naylor's 355 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Naylor you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 355 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 Naylor-wide figureread your own land →
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