Urich, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Urich, 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 Urich lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Urich — the short answer
Urich, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 259 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 259 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 Urich's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Urich's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Urich
Each reading below is measured for Urich itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredUrich 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
MeasuredUrich 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 Urich is in
Urich sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Urich's own centroid rather than borrowed from Henry County.
What Grows in Urich
Every plant below cleared Urich's own zone 6b and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Urich?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Urich
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Urich. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GARY SCOTT EXCAVATING CONTUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- WHITEMAN AFB INDIA-9Underground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- CASEYS GENERAL STORE #1460Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- OVERBEY ENTERPRISESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- URICH MAINT LOT (OLD)Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- TERRY THURSTON - CLOSEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- T42N R28W 03Nitrate · 1700 ft
- R & R SPORTING CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- URICH OIL COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- CASEYS GENERAL STORE 3447Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- MHTD (TRACT 23)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- URICH MAINT LOT (NEW)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Urich'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 Urich.
Total Sites
35
within ~10 miles of Urich
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Urich
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Urich
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Urich, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 12 sites within ~10 miles of Urich. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
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 Urich
Everything above resolves to Urich as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 259 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 Urich Average
Urich Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Urich
- ●One soil character for all of Urich
- ●Frost dates read at Urich's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Urich's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Urich
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Urich, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Urich averages can't show:
We read public map data around Urich — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Urich average
How we know this about Urich
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 Urich’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 Urich
When does frost risk typically end in Urich?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Urich typically lands around Mar 28, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Urich?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Urich typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Urich?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Urich sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Oct 21, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Urich?
The federal record around Urich is light — 35 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (20), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Urich?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Urich's scale — its 6b band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Urich'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 Urich’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Urich's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 259 acres it covers and 35 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Urich's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Urich's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 4 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 35 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Urich, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Urich's boundary and the 259 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Urich's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Urich's 259 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Henry County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Henry 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 Henry County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Urich's 259 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Urich you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 259 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 Urich-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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