Stanberry, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Stanberry, 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 Stanberry 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 Stanberry — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Stanberry — the short answer
Stanberry, Missouri: USDA zone 6a, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 898 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- 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
- ~209
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 898 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 Stanberry's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stanberry's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stanberry
Each reading below is measured for Stanberry itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStanberry runs about 209 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
MeasuredStanberry 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 Stanberry is in
Stanberry sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Stanberry's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gentry County.
What Grows in Stanberry
Every plant below cleared Stanberry's own zone 6a and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Stanberry?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (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. 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 Stanberry
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stanberry. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STUARTS SELF SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- CASEYS GENERAL STORE #1143Underground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- MIDWEST MANUFACTURING COMPANYBrownfields · 1200 ft
- EAGLE CUSTOM CABINETSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- MILLER'S SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- T62N R32W 06AAA1Nitrate · 1700 ft
- JOHN'S MFA SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- T62N R32W 06BBB2Nitrate · 2300 ft
- STANBERRY MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- STANBERRY PARTS COUNTRYBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- STANBERRY STOP & SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- NODAWAY COUNTY PWSD 1PFAS · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Stanberry'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 Stanberry.
Total Sites
32
within ~10 miles of Stanberry
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stanberry
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stanberry
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Stanberry, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Stanberry — CAFO (4 sites) and Nitrate (16 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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Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Stanberry
Everything above resolves to Stanberry as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 898 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 Stanberry Average
Stanberry Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Stanberry
- ●One soil character for all of Stanberry
- ●Frost dates read at Stanberry's scale: Apr 6 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stanberry's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Stanberry
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Stanberry, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Stanberry averages can't show:
We read public map data around Stanberry — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Stanberry average
How we know this about Stanberry
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 Stanberry’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 Stanberry
When does frost risk typically end in Stanberry?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stanberry typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Stanberry?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stanberry 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 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stanberry?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stanberry sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 18, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stanberry?
The federal record around Stanberry shows 32 documented sites, mostly Nitrate 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 Stanberry?
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 Stanberry's scale — its 6a band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stanberry'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 Stanberry’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Stanberry's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 898 acres it covers and 32 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stanberry's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stanberry's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Nov 1 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 32 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stanberry, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stanberry's boundary and the 898 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Stanberry's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Stanberry's 898 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gentry County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gentry 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 Gentry County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Stanberry's 898 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stanberry you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 898 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 Stanberry-wide figureread your own land →