Stoutsville, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, blueberry, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Stoutsville, 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 Stoutsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,085 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Stoutsville — the short answer
Stoutsville, Missouri: USDA zone 6a, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 527 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- 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 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 527 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 Stoutsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stoutsville's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stoutsville
Each reading below is measured for Stoutsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStoutsville runs about 221 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
MeasuredStoutsville 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 Stoutsville is in
Stoutsville sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Stoutsville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Monroe County is mostly Central Irregular Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Stoutsville
Every plant below cleared Stoutsville's own zone 6a and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
More to grow in Missouri
Missouri has a growing page for many more plants than fit above — a rotating sample of the rest of the shelf.
Is it too late to plant in Stoutsville?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. 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 5 — 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.
Documented around Stoutsville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Stoutsville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 245 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Stoutsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stoutsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TWO MILE PORK - BUCKMAN FARMCAFO · 0.5 mi
- MARK TWAIN STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- CANNON PWSD 1PFAS · 3.1 mi
- MONROE COUNTY PWSD 2PFAS · 3.1 mi
- BUCKMAN FAMILY FARMS INCORPORATEDCAFO · 3.4 mi
- QUINN PORK LLCCAFO · 3.8 mi
- D AND M PORK LLCCAFO · 5.1 mi
- TWO MILE PORK - FORD FARMCAFO · 6.3 mi
- INDIAN CREEK MARINABrownfields · 6.4 mi
- T54N R08W 16AAD1Nitrate · 6.6 mi
- PARIS WASTE WATER PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.4 mi
- SIMPSON CHEV & OLDS, INC - FORMERUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius.
Measured from Stoutsville's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Browse the full contamination data for this area
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Stoutsville.
Total Sites
41
within ~10 miles of Stoutsville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stoutsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stoutsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Stoutsville, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 5 sites within ~10 miles of Stoutsville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Stoutsville
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Your land is one point inside Stoutsville
Everything above resolves to Stoutsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 527 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 Stoutsville Average
Stoutsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Stoutsville
- ●One soil character for all of Stoutsville
- ●Frost dates read at Stoutsville's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stoutsville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Stoutsville
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We read public map data around Stoutsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Stoutsville
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 Stoutsville’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 Stoutsville
When does frost risk typically end in Stoutsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stoutsville 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 Stoutsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stoutsville typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stoutsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stoutsville sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 22, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stoutsville?
The federal record around Stoutsville is a meaningful one — 41 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (22), the nearest CAFO record about 0.5 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 Stoutsville?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Stoutsville's scale — its 6a band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stoutsville'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 Stoutsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Stoutsville's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 527 acres it covers and 41 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stoutsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stoutsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 5 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 41 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stoutsville, the closest CAFO record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stoutsville's boundary and the 527 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,085 plants clear zones 6a and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Stoutsville sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Stoutsville 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 Stoutsville's 527 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Monroe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Monroe 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 Monroe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Stoutsville's 527 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stoutsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 527 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest CAFO record about 0.5 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 Stoutsville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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