Webber, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Webber, 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 Webber lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Webber — the short answer
Webber, Kansas: USDA zone 6a, about 198 days between hard freezes, across 74 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~198
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 74 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 Webber's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Webber's 198-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Webber
Each reading below is measured for Webber itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWebber runs about 198 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredWebber 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 Webber is in
Webber sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Webber's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jewell County.
What Grows in Webber
Every plant below cleared Webber's own zone 6a and its 198-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Webber?
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 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Webber
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Webber. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LOVEWELL DAM OUTLETBrownfields · 25 ft
- VANS SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- BUREAU OF RECLAMATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- DIAMOND OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- LOVEWELL STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- 01S 07W 11BBA 01Nitrate · 4.3 mi
- 01S 06W 24CBB 01Nitrate · 4.7 mi
- 1N 6W33CC 1Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- 01S 07W 17CDC 01Nitrate · 5.4 mi
- 01S 07W 09BBB 01Nitrate · 5.7 mi
- SUPERIOR CITY OF SEWER DEPTBrownfields · 5.7 mi
- 01S 07W 31DDC 01Nitrate · 5.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Webber'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 Webber.
Total Sites
55
within ~10 miles of Webber
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Webber
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Webber
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Webber, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 30 sites within ~10 miles of Webber. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Webber
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 Webber
Everything above resolves to Webber as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 74 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 Webber Average
Webber Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Webber
- ●One soil character for all of Webber
- ●Frost dates read at Webber's scale: Apr 10 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Webber's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Webber
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Webber, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Webber averages can't show:
We read public map data around Webber — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Webber average
How we know this about Webber
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 Webber’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 Webber
When does frost risk typically end in Webber?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Webber typically lands around Apr 10, 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 May 1.
When is the first frost in Webber?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Webber typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 198 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Webber?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Webber sees about 198 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 11, about 163 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Webber?
The federal record around Webber shows 55 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (30), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Webber?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Webber's scale — its 6a band and its 198-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Webber'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 Webber’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Webber's own scale — its own ~198-day season between 28°F freezes, the 74 acres it covers and 55 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Webber's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Webber's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Oct 25 and the ~198-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 55 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Webber, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Webber's boundary and the 74 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~198-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Webber's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Webber's 74 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jewell County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jewell County
- The growing challenges every Kansas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kansas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Jewell County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Webber's 74 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Webber you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 74 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Webber-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across KansasWebber sits outside our named growing regions, so Kansas as a whole is its closest context here.