Beverly, Illinois, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Beverly, 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 Beverly 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 Beverly — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
Beverly — the short answer
Beverly, Illinois: USDA zone 6a, about 207 days between hard freezes, across 881 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~207
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 881 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 Beverly's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beverly's 207-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beverly
Each reading below is measured for Beverly itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeverly runs about 207 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
MeasuredBeverly 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 Beverly is in
Beverly sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Beverly's own centroid rather than borrowed from Adams County.
What Grows in Beverly
Every plant below cleared Beverly's own zone 6a and its 207-day season. Each card opens that plant's Illinois profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beverly?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — 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 Beverly
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beverly. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- IMPERIAL INDUSTRIESSuperfund · 2.5 mi
- FairmountUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- Fishhook MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- ASCEND BARRYBrownfields · 5.7 mi
- Baylis Radio TownerUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.4 mi
- Barry Amoco IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- IDOT BARRY YARDBrownfields · 6.9 mi
- Jiffi Stop #573Underground Storage Tanks · 7.0 mi
- Rennecker Equip IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.1 mi
- Barry School Bus GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
- Barry-West Pk Ambulance BldgUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.4 mi
- Barry Travel PlazaUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beverly'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 Beverly.
Total Sites
29
within ~10 miles of Beverly
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beverly
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beverly
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beverly, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 23 sites within ~10 miles of Beverly. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Beverly
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beverly average
Your land is one point inside Beverly
Everything above resolves to Beverly as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 881 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 Beverly Average
Beverly Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Beverly
- ●One soil character for all of Beverly
- ●Frost dates read at Beverly's scale: Apr 4 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beverly's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Beverly
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beverly, Illinois — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beverly averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beverly — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beverly average
How we know this about Beverly
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 Beverly’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 Beverly
When does frost risk typically end in Beverly?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beverly typically lands around Apr 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 Apr 25.
When is the first frost in Beverly?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beverly typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 207 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beverly?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beverly sees about 207 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 14, about 172 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beverly?
The federal record around Beverly is a meaningful one — 29 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (23), the nearest Superfund record about 2.5 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 Beverly?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beverly's scale — its 6a band and its 207-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beverly'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 Beverly’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Beverly's own scale — its own ~207-day season between 28°F freezes, the 881 acres it covers and 29 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beverly's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beverly's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Oct 28 and the ~207-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 29 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beverly, the closest Superfund record about 2.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beverly's boundary and the 881 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~207-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Beverly's own centroid, the Interior River Valleys and HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beverly's 881 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Adams County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Adams 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 Adams County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beverly's 881 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beverly you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 881 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund record about 2.5 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 Beverly-wide figureread your own land →
More in Illinois
Wider growing context
What grows across IllinoisBeverly sits outside our named growing regions, so Illinois as a whole is its closest context here.