Kinmundy, Illinois, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Kinmundy, 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 Kinmundy lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kinmundy — the short answer
Kinmundy, Illinois: USDA zone 6b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 767 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 767 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 6b is Kinmundy's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kinmundy's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kinmundy
Each reading below is measured for Kinmundy itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKinmundy runs about 217 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
MeasuredKinmundy sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Kinmundy is in
Kinmundy sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kinmundy's own centroid rather than borrowed from Marion County.
What Grows in Kinmundy
Every plant below cleared Kinmundy's own zone 6b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Illinois profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kinmundy?
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 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Kinmundy
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kinmundy. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Johnson AmocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Geiler StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Omega GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Mulvany OilUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Krutsinger GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- David C. WhiteUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Kinmundy-Alma Comm Unit Schl 301Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- KINMUNDYPFAS · 1.7 mi
- LAYERS, INCCAFO · 3.3 mi
- JASON SIGRIST SWINE FACILITYCAFO · 3.9 mi
- Williams Farm EquipmentUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- Planters Farm CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kinmundy'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 Kinmundy.
Total Sites
36
within ~10 miles of Kinmundy
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kinmundy
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kinmundy
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kinmundy, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 24 sites within ~10 miles of Kinmundy. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Kinmundy
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 Kinmundy average
Your land is one point inside Kinmundy
Everything above resolves to Kinmundy as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 767 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 city 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 Kinmundy Average
Kinmundy Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Kinmundy
- ●One soil character for all of Kinmundy
- ●Frost dates read at Kinmundy's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kinmundy's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kinmundy
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kinmundy, Illinois — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kinmundy averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kinmundy — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kinmundy average
How we know this about Kinmundy
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Kinmundy’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Kinmundy
When does frost risk typically end in Kinmundy?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kinmundy typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Kinmundy?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kinmundy typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kinmundy?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kinmundy sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 19, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kinmundy?
The federal record around Kinmundy shows 36 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (24), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles 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 Kinmundy?
From about Oct 3 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 Nov 2 (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 Nov 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kinmundy's scale — its 6b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kinmundy'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 Kinmundy’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Kinmundy's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 767 acres it covers and 36 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kinmundy's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kinmundy's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 2 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 36 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kinmundy, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kinmundy's boundary and the 767 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kinmundy'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 Kinmundy's 767 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marion County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marion 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 Marion County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kinmundy's 767 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kinmundy you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 767 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Kinmundy-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across IllinoisKinmundy sits outside our named growing regions, so Illinois as a whole is its closest context here.