White Hall, Illinois, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in White Hall, 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 White Hall lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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White Hall — the short answer
White Hall, Illinois: USDA zone 6a, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 2K 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 White Hall's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against White Hall's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in White Hall
Each reading below is measured for White Hall itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWhite Hall 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
MeasuredWhite Hall 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 White Hall is in
White Hall sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at White Hall's own centroid rather than borrowed from Greene County.
What Grows in White Hall
Every plant below cleared White Hall'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 White Hall?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — 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 White Hall
Closest first, within ~10 miles of White Hall. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KROGER COMPANY 462 (138214)-TREATMENT PLANTBrownfields · 750 ft
- PFIZER INCBrownfields · 800 ft
- Jack's StandardUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- White Hall HospitalUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Fords AmocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- WARECO 124Brownfields · 1300 ft
- Scotty's Convenience Center Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- North Greene High SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- City ShedUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- ILLINOIS DEPT OF AGBrownfields · 2000 ft
- North Greene Bus GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Tri County Fs IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from White Hall'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 White Hall.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of White Hall
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of White Hall
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around White Hall, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 42 sites within ~10 miles of White Hall. 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.
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Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside White Hall
Everything above resolves to White Hall as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 White Hall Average
White Hall Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across White Hall
- ●One soil character for all of White Hall
- ●Frost dates read at White Hall's scale: Apr 1 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not White Hall's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around White Hall — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about White Hall
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 White Hall’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 White Hall
When does frost risk typically end in White Hall?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in White Hall typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in White Hall?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in White Hall typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in White Hall?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, White Hall sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 15, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in White Hall?
The federal record around White Hall shows 57 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (42), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 White Hall?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at White Hall's scale — its 6a band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of White Hall'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 White Hall’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at White Hall's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,649 acres it covers and 57 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- White Hall's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- White Hall's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Oct 29 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 57 documented contamination sites on the federal record near White Hall, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- White Hall's boundary and the 1,649 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 White Hall'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 White Hall's 1,649 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Greene County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Greene 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 Greene County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among White Hall's 1,649 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of White Hall you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,649 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 White Hall-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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