Jeisyville, Illinois, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Jeisyville, 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 Jeisyville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Jeisyville — the short answer
Jeisyville, Illinois: USDA zone 6a, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 78 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 78 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 Jeisyville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jeisyville's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jeisyville
Each reading below is measured for Jeisyville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredJeisyville runs about 211 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
MeasuredJeisyville 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 Jeisyville is in
Jeisyville sits in the Central Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Jeisyville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Christian County.
What Grows in Jeisyville
Every plant below cleared Jeisyville's own zone 6a and its 211-day season. Each card opens that plant's Illinois profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Jeisyville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — 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 Jeisyville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jeisyville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Kincaid StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- DOMINION KINCAID GENERATION LLCToxics Release Inventory · 2500 ft
- DOMINION KINCAID GENERATION LLCBrownfields · 2500 ft
- Kincaid Phillips 66Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Tip SerUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Steve J Katcher Filling StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- SOUTHFORK TOWNSHIPBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- South Fork TownshipUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Casey's General Store #2577Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Kaiser Ag Chemicals IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- Jack Kennedy Metal Products & Bldgs., Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- Nw Treatment PlantUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Jeisyville'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 Jeisyville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Jeisyville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jeisyville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Jeisyville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 8 sites within ~10 miles of Jeisyville. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Jeisyville
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 Jeisyville average
Your land is one point inside Jeisyville
Everything above resolves to Jeisyville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 78 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 Jeisyville Average
Jeisyville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Jeisyville
- ●One soil character for all of Jeisyville
- ●Frost dates read at Jeisyville's scale: Apr 2 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jeisyville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Jeisyville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Jeisyville, Illinois — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Jeisyville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Jeisyville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Jeisyville average
How we know this about Jeisyville
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 Jeisyville’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 Jeisyville
When does frost risk typically end in Jeisyville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jeisyville typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Jeisyville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jeisyville typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jeisyville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jeisyville sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 16, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jeisyville?
The federal record around Jeisyville is a meaningful one — 125 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (75), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Jeisyville?
From about Sep 30 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Jeisyville's scale — its 6a band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jeisyville'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 Jeisyville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Jeisyville's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 78 acres it covers and 125 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jeisyville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Jeisyville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Oct 30 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 125 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jeisyville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jeisyville's boundary and the 78 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Jeisyville'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 Jeisyville's 78 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Christian County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Christian 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 Christian County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jeisyville's 78 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jeisyville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 78 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Jeisyville-wide figureread your own land →
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