Kaneville, Illinois, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Kaneville, 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 Kaneville 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 Kaneville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Kaneville — the short answer
Kaneville, Illinois: USDA zone 5b, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 182 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~192
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 182 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 Kaneville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kaneville's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kaneville
Each reading below is measured for Kaneville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKaneville runs about 192 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
MeasuredKaneville 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 Kaneville is in
Kaneville sits in the Central Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kaneville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Kane County.
What Grows in Kaneville
Every plant below cleared Kaneville's own zone 5b and its 192-day season. Each card opens that plant's Illinois profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kaneville?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Kaneville
Spotted lanternfly documented 10 miles from Kaneville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Kaneville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kaneville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Kaneville Resale & SerUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Kaneville Seed IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Elmhurst Chicago Stone CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- BUILDERS ASPHALT LLCBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- QUIKRETE - CHICAGO, IL PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 1.5 mi
- Weiland LeonardUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- ELBURNPFAS · 2.6 mi
- ENVIRONMENTAL WASTE SVC INCBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- HODGES TRUCK CENTERBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- Neely Harry CUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- ILLINOIS TOLLWAY AUTHORITYBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- ISTHA M11 Salt DomeUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kaneville'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 Kaneville.
Total Sites
285
within ~10 miles of Kaneville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kaneville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kaneville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kaneville, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 6 sites within ~10 miles of Kaneville. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Kaneville
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 Kaneville average
Your land is one point inside Kaneville
Everything above resolves to Kaneville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 182 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 Kaneville Average
Kaneville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Kaneville
- ●One soil character for all of Kaneville
- ●Frost dates read at Kaneville's scale: Apr 13 to Oct 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kaneville's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kaneville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kaneville, Illinois — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kaneville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kaneville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kaneville average
How we know this about Kaneville
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 Kaneville’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 Kaneville
When does frost risk typically end in Kaneville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kaneville typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Kaneville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kaneville typically arrives around Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 8, so the watching starts about Sep 22 — about 192 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kaneville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kaneville sees about 192 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 8, about 157 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kaneville?
The federal record around Kaneville is a meaningful one — 285 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (121), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Kaneville?
From about Sep 22 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kaneville's scale — its 5b band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kaneville'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 Kaneville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Kaneville's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 182 acres it covers and 285 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kaneville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kaneville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Oct 22 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 285 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kaneville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kaneville's boundary and the 182 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~192-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kaneville's own centroid, the Central Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Kanevillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kaneville's 182 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Kane County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Kane 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 Kane County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kaneville's 182 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kaneville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 182 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Kaneville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across IllinoisKaneville sits outside our named growing regions, so Illinois as a whole is its closest context here.
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