Beaverville, Illinois, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Beaverville, 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 Beaverville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Beaverville — the short answer
Beaverville, Illinois: USDA zone 5b, about 202 days between hard freezes, across 176 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~202
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 176 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 5b is Beaverville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beaverville's 202-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beaverville
Each reading below is measured for Beaverville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeaverville runs about 202 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
MeasuredBeaverville sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Beaverville is in
Beaverville sits in the Central Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Beaverville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Iroquois County.
What Grows in Beaverville
Every plant below cleared Beaverville's own zone 5b and its 202-day season. Each card opens that plant's Illinois profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beaverville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Beaverville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Beaverville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 48 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Beaverville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beaverville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Brown DelmarUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- Beaverville FaciltiyUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- Iroquois Co Conservation AreaUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- Lareau TerryUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- Beaverville Grain & LbrUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- KB&S RAILROADBrownfields · 1400 ft
- Papineau Township BldgUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- Dewitt SerUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- Mercier Valley FarmUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Duis FarmsUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- ACE AUTO REPAIR INCBrownfields · 4.3 mi
- DONOVAN EGG FARMCAFO · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beaverville'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 Beaverville.
Total Sites
68
within ~10 miles of Beaverville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beaverville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beaverville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beaverville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Beaverville. 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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Your land is one point inside Beaverville
Everything above resolves to Beaverville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 176 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 Beaverville Average
Beaverville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Beaverville
- ●One soil character for all of Beaverville
- ●Frost dates read at Beaverville's scale: Apr 10 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beaverville's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beaverville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beaverville, Illinois — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Beaverville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Beaverville
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 Beaverville’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 Beaverville
When does frost risk typically end in Beaverville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beaverville typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Beaverville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beaverville typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 202 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beaverville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beaverville sees about 202 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 15, about 167 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beaverville?
The federal record around Beaverville is a meaningful one — 68 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (41), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Beaverville?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beaverville's scale — its 5b band and its 202-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beaverville'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 Beaverville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Beaverville's own scale — its own ~202-day season between 28°F freezes, the 176 acres it covers and 68 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beaverville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beaverville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Oct 29 and the ~202-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 68 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beaverville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beaverville's boundary and the 176 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~202-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Beaverville's own centroid, the Central Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Beaverville 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 Beaverville's 176 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Iroquois County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Iroquois County
- The growing challenges every Illinois grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Illinois
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Iroquois County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beaverville's 176 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beaverville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 176 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 Beaverville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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