Beverly Shores, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, blueberry, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Beverly Shores, 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 Beverly Shores 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 Beverly Shores — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Beverly Shores — the short answer
Beverly Shores, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 226 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~226
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 Beverly Shores's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beverly Shores's 226-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beverly Shores
Each reading below is measured for Beverly Shores itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeverly Shores runs about 226 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
MeasuredBeverly Shores 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 Beverly Shores is in
Beverly Shores sits in the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Beverly Shores's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Porter County is mostly Central Corn Belt Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Beverly Shores
Every plant below cleared Beverly Shores's own zone 6a and its 226-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beverly Shores?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 16 — 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.
Documented around Beverly Shores
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Beverly Shores, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Beverly Shores
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beverly Shores. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- USGS DUNES WELL 214 26 FTNitrate · 0.5 mi
- USGS DUNES WELL GM-25 11 FTNitrate · 0.7 mi
- USGS DUNES WELL GM-30 16 FTNitrate · 0.8 mi
- BROWN INCORPORATED YARD 1Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- USGS DUNES WELL GM-29 7 FTNitrate · 1.0 mi
- USGS DUNES WELL 213 135 FTNitrate · 1.0 mi
- USGS DUNES WELL GM-24 7 FTNitrate · 1.0 mi
- USGS DUNES WELL 213G 12 FTNitrate · 1.1 mi
- CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- VIRKS NEW MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- WR & DW NEWMANUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- USGS DUNES WELL 215 35 FTNitrate · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beverly Shores'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 Beverly Shores.
Total Sites
668
within ~10 miles of Beverly Shores
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
12 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beverly Shores
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beverly Shores
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beverly Shores, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Beverly Shores — Superfund (12 sites) and Nitrate (232 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Beverly Shores
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 Beverly Shores average
Your land is one point inside Beverly Shores
Everything above resolves to Beverly Shores 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 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 Beverly Shores Average
Beverly Shores Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Beverly Shores
- ●One soil character for all of Beverly Shores
- ●Frost dates read at Beverly Shores's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beverly Shores's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beverly Shores
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beverly Shores, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beverly Shores averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beverly Shores — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beverly Shores average
How we know this about Beverly Shores
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 Beverly Shores’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 Beverly Shores
When does frost risk typically end in Beverly Shores?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beverly Shores typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Beverly Shores?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beverly Shores typically arrives around Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 2, so the watching starts about Oct 17 — about 226 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beverly Shores?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beverly Shores sees about 226 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Nov 2, about 191 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beverly Shores?
The federal record around Beverly Shores is a meaningful one — 668 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (251), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.5 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 Beverly Shores?
From about Oct 17 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beverly Shores's scale — its 6a band and its 226-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beverly Shores'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 Beverly Shores’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Beverly Shores's own scale — its own ~226-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,293 acres it covers and 668 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beverly Shores's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beverly Shores's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 16 and the ~226-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 668 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beverly Shores, the closest Nitrate record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beverly Shores's boundary and the 2,293 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~226-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Beverly Shores sits in the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Beverly Shoreslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beverly Shores's 2,293 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Porter County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Porter County
- The growing challenges every Indiana grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Indiana
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Porter County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beverly Shores's 2,293 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beverly Shores you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,293 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Beverly Shores-wide figureread your own land →