Maryville, Illinois, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Maryville, 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 Maryville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Maryville — the short answer
Maryville, Illinois: USDA zone 7a, about 236 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~236
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 7a is Maryville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Maryville's 236-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Maryville
Each reading below is measured for Maryville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMaryville runs about 236 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
MeasuredMaryville sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Maryville is in
Maryville sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Maryville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Madison County.
What Grows in Maryville
Every plant below cleared Maryville's own zone 7a and its 236-day season. Each card opens that plant's Illinois profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Maryville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — 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.
Documented around Maryville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Maryville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 228 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Maryville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Maryville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KURTS CARSTAR COLLISION CTRBrownfields · 2500 ft
- AmeritechUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- One Stop ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Maryville Gas & WashUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Il Power Maryville Serv AreaUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- AMEREN ILLINOISBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- Casey's General Store #3015Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Maryville Village OfUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Anderson HospitalUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- King's 66 ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- GARY DUCKWORTH AUTOMOTRIVE SVCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- Circle K #1459Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Maryville'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 Maryville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Maryville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Maryville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Maryville, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 12 sites within ~10 miles of Maryville. 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 Maryville
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 Maryville average
Your land is one point inside Maryville
Everything above resolves to Maryville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Maryville Average
Maryville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Maryville
- ●One soil character for all of Maryville
- ●Frost dates read at Maryville's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Maryville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Maryville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Maryville, Illinois — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Maryville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Maryville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Maryville average
How we know this about Maryville
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 Maryville’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 Maryville
When does frost risk typically end in Maryville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Maryville typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Maryville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Maryville typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 236 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Maryville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Maryville sees about 236 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 30, about 201 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Maryville?
The federal record around Maryville runs heavier than most — 720 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (387), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.5 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Maryville?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Maryville's scale — its 7a band and its 236-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Maryville'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 Maryville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Maryville's own scale — its own ~236-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,705 acres it covers and 720 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Maryville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Maryville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 13 and the ~236-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 720 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Maryville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Maryville's boundary and the 3,705 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~236-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Maryville's own centroid, the Interior River Valleys and HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Maryville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Maryville's 3,705 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Madison County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Madison 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 Madison County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Maryville's 3,705 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Maryville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,705 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Maryville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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