Northmoor, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Northmoor, 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 Northmoor 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 Northmoor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Northmoor — the short answer
Northmoor, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 227 days between hard freezes, across 151 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 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~227
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 151 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 Northmoor's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Northmoor's 227-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Northmoor
Each reading below is measured for Northmoor itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNorthmoor runs about 227 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
MeasuredNorthmoor 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 Northmoor is in
Northmoor sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Northmoor's own centroid rather than borrowed from Platte County.
What Grows in Northmoor
Every plant below cleared Northmoor's own zone 6b and its 227-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Northmoor?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. 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 10 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Northmoor
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Northmoor. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PACKAGE SERVICE COMPANYToxics Release Inventory · 1400 ft
- KENNY'S AUTO & TIREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- KANSAS CITY MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- GARNEY COMPANIES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- FORMER CAROLCO SERVICE (SINCLAIR)Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- DANNY WOOD'S SERVICE, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- QUIKTRIP #170Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- QUIKTRIP # 170Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- FORMER RIVERSIDE PHILLIPS 66Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SINCLAIR RETAILUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- QUIKTRIP #170RUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- DALE RICKER - RIVERSIDE STANDARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Northmoor'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 Northmoor.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Northmoor
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Northmoor
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Northmoor, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 235 sites within ~10 miles of Northmoor. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Northmoor
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 Northmoor average
Your land is one point inside Northmoor
Everything above resolves to Northmoor as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 151 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 Northmoor Average
Northmoor Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Northmoor
- ●One soil character for all of Northmoor
- ●Frost dates read at Northmoor's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Northmoor's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Northmoor
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Northmoor, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Northmoor averages can't show:
We read public map data around Northmoor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Northmoor average
How we know this about Northmoor
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 Northmoor’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 Northmoor
When does frost risk typically end in Northmoor?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Northmoor 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 Northmoor?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Northmoor 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 227 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Northmoor?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Northmoor sees about 227 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Oct 27, about 192 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Northmoor?
The federal record around Northmoor is a meaningful one — 2,802 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,444), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.3 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 Northmoor?
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 Northmoor's scale — its 6b band and its 227-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Northmoor'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 Northmoor’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Northmoor's own scale — its own ~227-day season between 28°F freezes, the 151 acres it covers and 2,802 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Northmoor's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Northmoor's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 10 and the ~227-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,802 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Northmoor, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Northmoor's boundary and the 151 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~227-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Northmoor's own centroid, the Western Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Northmoor's 151 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Platte County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Platte 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 Platte County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Northmoor's 151 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Northmoor you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 151 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.3 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 Northmoor-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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