South Gorin, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 South Gorin, 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 South Gorin lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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South Gorin — the short answer
South Gorin, Missouri: USDA zone 6a, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 130 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 130 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 6a is South Gorin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against South Gorin's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in South Gorin
Each reading below is measured for South Gorin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSouth Gorin runs about 213 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
MeasuredSouth Gorin sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 South Gorin is in
South Gorin sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at South Gorin's own centroid rather than borrowed from Scotland County.
What Grows in South Gorin
Every plant below cleared South Gorin's own zone 6a and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in South Gorin?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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 South Gorin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of South Gorin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KLOPFER'S GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- EARL OBERHOLTZER FARMCAFO · 3.5 mi
- HODGES AG, LLCCAFO · 4.3 mi
- SCOTLAND COUNTY CONS PWSD 1PFAS · 4.5 mi
- MEL'S GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- RUTLEDGE MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- MICHAEL SENSENIGCAFO · 5.0 mi
- WYACONDA C-1 SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- WYACONDA CI HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 5.6 mi
- WYACONDA STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- CARTERS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- ARBELA 4 CORNER STATION - SOLDUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from South Gorin'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 South Gorin.
Total Sites
33
within ~10 miles of South Gorin
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of South Gorin
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of South Gorin
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around South Gorin, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of South Gorin — CAFO (5 sites) and Nitrate (10 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside South Gorin
Everything above resolves to South Gorin as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 130 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 South Gorin Average
South Gorin Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across South Gorin
- ●One soil character for all of South Gorin
- ●Frost dates read at South Gorin's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not South Gorin's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in South Gorin
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Three things about your lot that South Gorin averages can't show:
We read public map data around South Gorin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the South Gorin average
How we know this about South Gorin
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 South Gorin’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 South Gorin
When does frost risk typically end in South Gorin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in South Gorin typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in South Gorin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in South Gorin typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in South Gorin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, South Gorin sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 18, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in South Gorin?
The federal record around South Gorin shows 33 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (16), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in South Gorin?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at South Gorin's scale — its 6a band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of South Gorin'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 South Gorin’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at South Gorin's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 130 acres it covers and 33 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- South Gorin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- South Gorin's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 1 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 33 documented contamination sites on the federal record near South Gorin, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- South Gorin's boundary and the 130 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at South Gorin's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so South Gorin's 130 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Scotland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Scotland 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 Scotland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among South Gorin's 130 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of South Gorin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 130 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 South Gorin-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MissouriSouth Gorin sits outside our named growing regions, so Missouri as a whole is its closest context here.