Riverview Estates, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Riverview Estates, 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 Riverview Estates 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 Riverview Estates — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Riverview Estates — the short answer
Riverview Estates, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 225 days between hard freezes, across 154 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~225
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 154 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 Riverview Estates's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Riverview Estates's 225-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Riverview Estates
Each reading below is measured for Riverview Estates itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRiverview Estates runs about 225 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
MeasuredRiverview Estates 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 Riverview Estates is in
Riverview Estates sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Riverview Estates's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cass County.
What Grows in Riverview Estates
Every plant below cleared Riverview Estates's own zone 6b and its 225-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Riverview Estates?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — 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 Riverview Estates
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Riverview Estates. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BELTON (EX) COMM FACILITYSuperfund · 0.8 mi
- USDOE KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS TA 193Brownfields · 2.4 mi
- USDOE KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS TA 193Toxics Release Inventory · 2.4 mi
- T45N R32W 08DCC1Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- BELTON PWSPFAS · 3.1 mi
- T44N R32W 19Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- WORLDWIDE STEEL BUILDINGSBrownfields · 3.2 mi
- RAYMORE PECULAR MIDDLE SCHOOLBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- SOUTHWESTERN BELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- RAYMORE-PECULIAR SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- T45N R32W 16CDD1Nitrate · 3.8 mi
- MAINTENANCE GARAGE/BELTON SCH DISTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Riverview Estates'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 Riverview Estates.
Total Sites
323
within ~10 miles of Riverview Estates
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Riverview Estates
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Riverview Estates
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Riverview Estates, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Riverview Estates — PFAS (5 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (28 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Riverview Estates
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 Riverview Estates average
Your land is one point inside Riverview Estates
Everything above resolves to Riverview Estates as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 154 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 Riverview Estates Average
Riverview Estates Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Riverview Estates
- ●One soil character for all of Riverview Estates
- ●Frost dates read at Riverview Estates's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Riverview Estates's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Riverview Estates
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Riverview Estates, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Riverview Estates averages can't show:
We read public map data around Riverview Estates — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Riverview Estates average
How we know this about Riverview Estates
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 Riverview Estates’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 Riverview Estates
When does frost risk typically end in Riverview Estates?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Riverview Estates typically lands around Mar 29, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Riverview Estates?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Riverview Estates typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 225 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Riverview Estates?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Riverview Estates sees about 225 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 26, about 190 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Riverview Estates?
The federal record around Riverview Estates is a meaningful one — 323 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (144), the nearest Superfund record about 0.8 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 Riverview Estates?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Riverview Estates's scale — its 6b band and its 225-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Riverview Estates'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 Riverview Estates’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Riverview Estates's own scale — its own ~225-day season between 28°F freezes, the 154 acres it covers and 323 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Riverview Estates's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Riverview Estates's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 9 and the ~225-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 323 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Riverview Estates, the closest Superfund record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Riverview Estates's boundary and the 154 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~225-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Riverview Estates's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Riverview Estates's 154 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cass County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cass 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 Cass County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Riverview Estates's 154 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Riverview Estates you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 154 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund record about 0.8 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 Riverview Estates-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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