Reasnor, Iowa, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Reasnor, 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 Reasnor 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 Reasnor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Reasnor — the short answer
Reasnor, Iowa: USDA zone 5b, about 202 days between hard freezes, across 355 acres of city.
- 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
- City area
- 355 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 Reasnor's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Reasnor's 202-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Reasnor
Each reading below is measured for Reasnor itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredReasnor 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
MeasuredReasnor 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 Reasnor is in
Reasnor sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Reasnor's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jasper County.
What Grows in Reasnor
Every plant below cleared Reasnor's own zone 5b and its 202-day season. Each card opens that plant's Iowa profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Reasnor?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. 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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Reasnor
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Reasnor. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GENE AUTRY TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- VAN DUSSELDORP SAND & GRAVEL INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- ITC MIDWEST - REASNORBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- NEWTON CORRECTIONAL FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- NEWTON CORRECTIONAL FACILITYBrownfields · 4.0 mi
- NEWTON CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AT CRCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- 079N19W30ADD 1999Newton N13-41Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- 079N19W19DDD 1999Newton N6-46Nitrate · 5.2 mi
- MUNSON SINCLAIR LTDUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- CASEY''S GENERAL STORE #2522Underground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- MONROE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- 079N19W19ADA 1999Newton N5-41Nitrate · 5.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Reasnor'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 Reasnor.
Total Sites
210
within ~10 miles of Reasnor
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Reasnor
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Reasnor
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Reasnor
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Your land is one point inside Reasnor
Everything above resolves to Reasnor as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 355 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 Reasnor Average
Reasnor Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Reasnor
- ●One soil character for all of Reasnor
- ●Frost dates read at Reasnor's scale: Apr 8 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Reasnor's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Reasnor
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Reasnor, Iowa — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Reasnor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Reasnor average
How we know this about Reasnor
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 Reasnor’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 Reasnor
When does frost risk typically end in Reasnor?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Reasnor 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 Reasnor?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Reasnor 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 Reasnor?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Reasnor 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 Reasnor?
The federal record around Reasnor is a meaningful one — 210 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (116), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Reasnor?
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 Reasnor's scale — its 5b band and its 202-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Reasnor'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 Reasnor’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Reasnor's own scale — its own ~202-day season between 28°F freezes, the 355 acres it covers and 210 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Reasnor's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Reasnor's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Oct 27 and the ~202-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 210 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Reasnor, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Reasnor's boundary and the 355 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 Reasnor's own centroid, the Western Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Reasnor's 355 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jasper County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jasper County
- The growing challenges every Iowa grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Iowa
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Jasper County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Reasnor's 355 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Reasnor you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 355 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 Reasnor-wide figureread your own land →
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