Greenview, Illinois, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Greenview, 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 Greenview lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Greenview — the short answer
Greenview, Illinois: USDA zone 6a, about 207 days between hard freezes, across 550 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- 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
- ~207
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 550 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 Greenview's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Greenview's 207-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Greenview
Each reading below is measured for Greenview itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGreenview 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
MeasuredGreenview 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 Greenview is in
Greenview sits in the Central Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Greenview's own centroid rather than borrowed from Menard County.
What Grows in Greenview
Every plant below cleared Greenview'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 Greenview?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (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. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Greenview
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Greenview. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Baugher Implement CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- Reiser Grain CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- Greenview Auto SalesUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- Weidhuner Farm IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- Kaiser Chemical CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- S & H Trucking Co IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Greenview Village OfUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Casey's #2617Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Greenview Comm School Dist #200Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Nances Mini MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Tuttles MarathonUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- JDS HOLLIDAYCAFO · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Greenview'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 Greenview.
Total Sites
96
within ~10 miles of Greenview
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Greenview
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Greenview
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Greenview, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 61 sites within ~10 miles of Greenview. 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 Greenview
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 Greenview average
Your land is one point inside Greenview
Everything above resolves to Greenview as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 550 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 Greenview Average
Greenview Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Greenview
- ●One soil character for all of Greenview
- ●Frost dates read at Greenview's scale: Apr 5 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Greenview's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Greenview
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Greenview, Illinois — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Greenview — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Greenview average
How we know this about Greenview
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 Greenview’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 Greenview
When does frost risk typically end in Greenview?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Greenview typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Greenview?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Greenview 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 207 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Greenview?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Greenview sees about 207 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 15, about 172 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Greenview?
The federal record around Greenview shows 96 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (61), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Greenview?
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 Greenview's scale — its 6a band and its 207-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Greenview'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 Greenview’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Greenview's own scale — its own ~207-day season between 28°F freezes, the 550 acres it covers and 96 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Greenview's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Greenview's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Oct 29 and the ~207-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 96 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Greenview, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Greenview's boundary and the 550 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 Greenview's own centroid, the Central Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Greenview's 550 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Menard County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Menard 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 Menard County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Greenview's 550 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Greenview you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 550 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 Greenview-wide figureread your own land →
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