Village of Four Seasons, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Village of Four Seasons, 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 Village of Four Seasons 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 Village of Four Seasons — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Village of Four Seasons — the short answer
Village of Four Seasons, Missouri: USDA zone 7a, about 226 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- 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 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~226
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 7a is Village of Four Seasons's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Village of Four Seasons's 226-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Village of Four Seasons
Each reading below is measured for Village of Four Seasons itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredVillage of Four Seasons runs about 226 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
MeasuredVillage of Four Seasons sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Village of Four Seasons is in
Village of Four Seasons sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Village of Four Seasons's own centroid rather than borrowed from Camden County.
What Grows in Village of Four Seasons
Every plant below cleared Village of Four Seasons's own zone 7a and its 226-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Village of Four Seasons?
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 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 9 — 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.
Documented around Village of Four Seasons
Survey cells within 31 miles of Village of Four Seasons checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 344 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Village of Four Seasons
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Village of Four Seasons. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WAREHOUSE & MARINA LOCATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- JJ LAFATASUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- ADVANTAGE METALS RECYCLING LLCBrownfields · 2500 ft
- TOM SAWYER EXCURSION BOATUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- HORSESHOE BEND SPECIAL RD DIST #1Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- BIKINI PIERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- LODGE OF FOUR SEASONS SPA & GOLF RESORTBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- OZARK BAR B QUEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- BIG THUNDER AT GLENCOVE MARINABrownfields · 1.9 mi
- CAMDEN ON THE LAKE RESORT SPA AND YACHT CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- BAYOU BILLS BAR & GRILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- POINT RANDALL RESORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Village of Four Seasons'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 Village of Four Seasons.
Total Sites
213
within ~10 miles of Village of Four Seasons
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Village of Four Seasons
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Village of Four Seasons
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Village of Four Seasons, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Village of Four Seasons — Mining (46 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Village of Four Seasons
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 Village of Four Seasons
Everything above resolves to Village of Four Seasons as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Village of Four Seasons Average
Village of Four Seasons Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Village of Four Seasons
- ●One soil character for all of Village of Four Seasons
- ●Frost dates read at Village of Four Seasons's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Village of Four Seasons's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Village of Four Seasons
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Village of Four Seasons, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Village of Four Seasons averages can't show:
We read public map data around Village of Four Seasons — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Village of Four Seasons average
How we know this about Village of Four Seasons
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 Village of Four Seasons’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 Village of Four Seasons
When does frost risk typically end in Village of Four Seasons?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Village of Four Seasons 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 Village of Four Seasons?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Village of Four Seasons typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 226 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Village of Four Seasons?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Village of Four Seasons sees about 226 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Oct 26, about 191 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Village of Four Seasons?
The federal record around Village of Four Seasons runs heavier than most — 213 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (106), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Village of Four Seasons?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Village of Four Seasons's scale — its 7a band and its 226-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Village of Four Seasons'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 Village of Four Seasons’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Village of Four Seasons's own scale — its own ~226-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,973 acres it covers and 213 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Village of Four Seasons's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Village of Four Seasons's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 9 and the ~226-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 213 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Village of Four Seasons, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Village of Four Seasons's boundary and the 2,973 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~226-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Village of Four Seasons's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Village of Four Seasons 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 Village of Four Seasons's 2,973 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Camden County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Camden 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 Camden County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Village of Four Seasons's 2,973 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Village of Four Seasons you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,973 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Village of Four Seasons-wide figureread your own land →
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