Renick, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Renick, 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 Renick 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 Renick — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Renick — the short answer
Renick, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 231 acres of town.
- 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 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 231 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 Renick's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Renick's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Renick
Each reading below is measured for Renick itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRenick runs about 224 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
MeasuredRenick 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 Renick is in
Renick sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Renick's own centroid rather than borrowed from Randolph County.
What Grows in Renick
Every plant below cleared Renick's own zone 6b and its 224-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Renick?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 7 — 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.
Documented around Renick
Survey cells within 31 miles of Renick checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 276 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Renick
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Renick. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MOBERLY WOOD TREATINGBrownfields · 1800 ft
- MOBERLY CORRECTIONAL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- CITY SEWAGE LIFT STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- BREAK TIME 3163Underground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- TRANSPORTATION BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- SANU INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- BOMGAARS SUPPLY INCBrownfields · 3.8 mi
- MOBERLY CORRECTIONAL CENTERBrownfields · 4.3 mi
- CUSTOM COMPOSITES CO INC.Superfund · 4.6 mi
- CUSTOM COMPOSITES CO INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 4.6 mi
- SOUTHTOWN D-XUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- MIKE'S PLACE (FORMER)Underground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Renick'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 Renick.
Total Sites
128
within ~10 miles of Renick
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Renick
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Renick
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Renick, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Renick — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (14 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Renick
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 Renick average
Your land is one point inside Renick
Everything above resolves to Renick as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 231 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 Renick Average
Renick Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Renick
- ●One soil character for all of Renick
- ●Frost dates read at Renick's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Renick's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Renick
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Renick, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Renick averages can't show:
We read public map data around Renick — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Renick average
How we know this about Renick
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 Renick’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 Renick
When does frost risk typically end in Renick?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Renick 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 Renick?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Renick typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Renick?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Renick sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Oct 24, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Renick?
The federal record around Renick is a meaningful one — 128 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (76), the nearest Brownfields 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 Renick?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Renick's scale — its 6b band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Renick'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 Renick’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Renick's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 231 acres it covers and 128 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Renick's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Renick's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 7 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 128 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Renick, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Renick's boundary and the 231 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~224-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Renick's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Renick 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 Renick's 231 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Randolph County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Randolph 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 Randolph County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Renick's 231 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Renick you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 231 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Renick-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MissouriRenick sits outside our named growing regions, so Missouri as a whole is its closest context here.
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