Roseville, Illinois, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — 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, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Roseville, 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 Roseville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Roseville — the short answer
Roseville, Illinois: USDA zone 5b, about 202 days between hard freezes, across 473 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~202
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 473 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 Roseville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Roseville's 202-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Roseville
Each reading below is measured for Roseville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRoseville runs about 202 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
MeasuredRoseville 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 Roseville is in
Roseville sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Roseville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Warren County.
What Grows in Roseville
Every plant below cleared Roseville's own zone 5b and its 202-day season. Each card opens that plant's Illinois profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Roseville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Roseville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Roseville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Village Of RosevilleUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- Point Pleasant TownshipUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- Casey's General Store #2409Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Scott ServUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- Farmers Grain CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- Roseville High SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Roseville Road DistUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- John Adkisson 66Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- RosevilleUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- HAWK COBrownfields · 3.1 mi
- Smithshire Depot AreaUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- BRIAN BYERSCAFO · 6.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Roseville'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 Roseville.
Total Sites
31
within ~10 miles of Roseville
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
4 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Roseville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Roseville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Roseville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Roseville — CAFO (4 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (20 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Roseville
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 Roseville average
Your land is one point inside Roseville
Everything above resolves to Roseville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 473 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 Roseville Average
Roseville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Roseville
- ●One soil character for all of Roseville
- ●Frost dates read at Roseville's scale: Apr 8 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Roseville's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Roseville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Roseville, Illinois — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Roseville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Roseville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Roseville average
How we know this about Roseville
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 Roseville’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 Roseville
When does frost risk typically end in Roseville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Roseville typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Roseville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Roseville typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 202 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Roseville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Roseville sees about 202 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 13, about 167 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Roseville?
The federal record around Roseville is light — 31 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (20), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Roseville?
From about Sep 27 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Roseville's scale — its 5b band and its 202-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Roseville'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 Roseville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Roseville's own scale — its own ~202-day season between 28°F freezes, the 473 acres it covers and 31 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Roseville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Roseville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Oct 27 and the ~202-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 31 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Roseville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Roseville's boundary and the 473 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~202-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Roseville'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 Roseville's 473 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Warren County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Warren 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 Warren County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Roseville's 473 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Roseville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 473 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 Roseville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across IllinoisRoseville sits outside our named growing regions, so Illinois as a whole is its closest context here.