Nevada, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Nevada, 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 Nevada 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 Nevada — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Nevada — the short answer
Nevada, Missouri: USDA zone 7a, about 230 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~230
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 Nevada's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Nevada's 230-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Nevada
Each reading below is measured for Nevada itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNevada runs about 230 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
MeasuredNevada 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 Nevada is in
Nevada sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Nevada's own centroid rather than borrowed from Vernon County.
What Grows in Nevada
Every plant below cleared Nevada's own zone 7a and its 230-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Nevada?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — 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 Nevada
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Nevada. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CASEYS GENERAL STORE #3343Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- UNION PACIFICUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- HOT SPOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- L & S BAKER TIRE COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- MCCOY STANDARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- SUPER STOP #5Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR # 3312Brownfields · 2500 ft
- MERCANTILE BANK OF WESTERN MOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- FORMER HARRY SMITH STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- JAMES LUTES PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- FORMER HOWARD HENDERSHOT STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- W.F. NORMAN CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Nevada'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 Nevada.
Total Sites
94
within ~10 miles of Nevada
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Nevada
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Nevada
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Nevada, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 5 sites within ~10 miles of Nevada. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Nevada
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 Nevada average
Your land is one point inside Nevada
Everything above resolves to Nevada 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 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 Nevada Average
Nevada Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Nevada
- ●One soil character for all of Nevada
- ●Frost dates read at Nevada's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Nevada's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Nevada
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Nevada, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Nevada averages can't show:
We read public map data around Nevada — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Nevada average
How we know this about Nevada
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 Nevada’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 Nevada
When does frost risk typically end in Nevada?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Nevada typically lands around Mar 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Nevada?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Nevada typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 230 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Nevada?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Nevada sees about 230 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 27, about 195 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Nevada?
The federal record around Nevada is a meaningful one — 94 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (45), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Nevada?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Nevada's scale — its 7a band and its 230-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Nevada'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 Nevada’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Nevada's own scale — its own ~230-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,809 acres it covers and 94 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Nevada's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Nevada's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 10 and the ~230-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 94 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Nevada, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Nevada's boundary and the 5,809 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~230-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Nevada's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Nevada's 5,809 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Vernon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Vernon 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 Vernon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Nevada's 5,809 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Nevada you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,809 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Nevada-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MissouriNevada sits outside our named growing regions, so Missouri as a whole is its closest context here.
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