Cyr, Montana, 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.
Expect cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Cyr, 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 Cyr lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Cyr — the short answer
Cyr, Montana: USDA zone 6a, about 154 days between hard freezes, across 897 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~154
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 897 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 Cyr's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cyr's 154-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cyr
Each reading below is measured for Cyr itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCyr runs about 154 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCyr 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 Cyr is in
Cyr sits in the Northern Rockies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Cyr's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mineral County.
What Grows in Cyr
Every plant below cleared Cyr's own zone 6a and its 154-day season. Each card opens that plant's Montana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cyr?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Cyr
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cyr. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ALBERTON DERAILMENT SITESuperfund · 3.2 mi
- HAGLES RESORT LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- PANTHER EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- FORMER MWRR TARKIOUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- JERRYS EXXON ALBERTONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- MDOT MAINTENANCE SHOP ALBERTONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- ALBERTON HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 5.0 mi
- VALLEY GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- FORMER MWRR ALBERTONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- White Cap ProspectMining · 6.5 mi
- CoppersmithMining · 8.1 mi
- Copper SmithMining · 8.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cyr'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 Cyr.
Total Sites
26
within ~10 miles of Cyr
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cyr
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cyr
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cyr, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Cyr — Mining (7 sites) and Nitrate (10 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
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 Cyr
Everything above resolves to Cyr as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 897 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 Cyr Average
Cyr Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Cyr
- ●One soil character for all of Cyr
- ●Frost dates read at Cyr's scale: May 4 to Oct 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cyr's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cyr
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cyr, Montana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cyr averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cyr — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cyr average
How we know this about Cyr
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 Cyr’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 Cyr
When does frost risk typically end in Cyr?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cyr typically lands around May 4, 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 May 25.
When is the first frost in Cyr?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cyr typically arrives around Oct 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 21, so the watching starts about Sep 5 — about 154 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cyr?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cyr sees about 154 frost-free days — roughly May 4 through Oct 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 25 to Sep 21, about 119 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cyr?
The federal record around Cyr is a meaningful one — 26 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (10), the nearest Superfund record about 3.2 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 Cyr?
From about Sep 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 Oct 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 Oct 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cyr's scale — its 6a band and its 154-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cyr'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 Cyr’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Cyr's own scale — its own ~154-day season between 28°F freezes, the 897 acres it covers and 26 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cyr's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cyr's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 4 and Oct 5 and the ~154-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 26 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cyr, the closest Superfund record about 3.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cyr's boundary and the 897 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~154-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Cyr's own centroid, the Northern RockiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cyr's 897 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mineral County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mineral County
- The growing challenges every Montana grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Montana
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Mineral County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cyr's 897 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cyr you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 897 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund record about 3.2 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 Cyr-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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