Sheridan, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Sheridan, 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 Sheridan lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Sheridan — the short answer
Sheridan, Missouri: USDA zone 5b, about 202 days between hard freezes, across 124 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~202
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 124 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 5b is Sheridan's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sheridan's 202-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sheridan
Each reading below is measured for Sheridan itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSheridan runs about 202 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
MeasuredSheridan sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Sheridan is in
Sheridan sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Sheridan's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Worth County is mostly Central Irregular Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Sheridan
Every plant below cleared Sheridan's own zone 5b and its 202-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sheridan?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 26 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Sheridan
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sheridan. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T66N R33W 14Nitrate · 650 ft
- T66N R33W 14 2Nitrate · 750 ft
- SHERIDAN MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- T65N R33W 08DDNitrate · 4.7 mi
- FORMER BLOCKTON SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.7 mi
- 067N32W12DBBB 00452 1936Nitrate · 9.9 mi
Measured from Sheridan'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 Sheridan.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sheridan
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Sheridan
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 Sheridan average
Your land is one point inside Sheridan
Everything above resolves to Sheridan as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 124 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 Sheridan Average
Sheridan Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Sheridan
- ●One soil character for all of Sheridan
- ●Frost dates read at Sheridan's scale: Apr 7 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sheridan's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sheridan
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sheridan, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sheridan averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sheridan — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sheridan average
How we know this about Sheridan
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 Sheridan’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 Sheridan
When does frost risk typically end in Sheridan?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sheridan typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Sheridan?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sheridan typically arrives around Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 12, so the watching starts about Sep 26 — about 202 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sheridan?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sheridan sees about 202 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 12, about 167 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sheridan?
The federal record around Sheridan is light — 10 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (8), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Sheridan?
From about Sep 26 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 Oct 26 (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 Oct 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sheridan's scale — its 5b band and its 202-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sheridan'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 Sheridan’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Sheridan's own scale — its own ~202-day season between 28°F freezes, the 124 acres it covers and 10 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sheridan's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sheridan's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Oct 26 and the ~202-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 10 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sheridan, the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sheridan's boundary and the 124 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~202-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Sheridan sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sheridan's 124 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Worth County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Worth 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 Worth County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sheridan's 124 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sheridan you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 124 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 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 Sheridan-wide figureread your own land →