Beulah, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Beulah, 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 Beulah 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 Beulah — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Beulah — the short answer
Beulah, Michigan: USDA zone 6b, about 188 days between hard freezes, across 265 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~188
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 265 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 6b is Beulah's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beulah's 188-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beulah
Each reading below is measured for Beulah itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeulah runs about 188 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
MeasuredBeulah sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Beulah is in
Beulah sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Beulah's own centroid rather than borrowed from Benzie County.
What Grows in Beulah
Every plant below cleared Beulah's own zone 6b and its 188-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beulah?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 30; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Beulah
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beulah. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Village Of BeulahUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Kenney's Service (Former)Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Benzie Co Government CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Benzie School Bus GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Stapleton's Corner Market LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Beulah EZ MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Bjs Party StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Benzie Corners, IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Beulah Oil CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- FIELD CRAFTS INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- Cynthia FrieswyckUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY #1876Brownfields · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beulah'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 Beulah.
Total Sites
112
within ~10 miles of Beulah
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beulah
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beulah
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 Beulah
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 Beulah average
Your land is one point inside Beulah
Everything above resolves to Beulah as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 265 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 Beulah Average
Beulah Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Beulah
- ●One soil character for all of Beulah
- ●Frost dates read at Beulah's scale: Apr 27 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beulah's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beulah
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beulah, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beulah averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beulah — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beulah average
How we know this about Beulah
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 Beulah’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 Beulah
When does frost risk typically end in Beulah?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beulah typically lands around Apr 27, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Beulah?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beulah typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 188 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beulah?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beulah sees about 188 frost-free days — roughly Apr 27 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 18 to Oct 18, about 153 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beulah?
The federal record around Beulah shows 112 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (68), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Beulah?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beulah's scale — its 6b band and its 188-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beulah'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 Beulah’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Beulah's own scale — its own ~188-day season between 28°F freezes, the 265 acres it covers and 112 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beulah's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beulah's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 27 and Nov 1 and the ~188-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 112 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beulah, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beulah's boundary and the 265 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~188-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Beulah's own centroid, the North Central Hardwood ForestsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beulah's 265 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Benzie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Benzie County
- The growing challenges every Michigan grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Michigan
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Benzie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beulah's 265 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beulah you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 265 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Beulah-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MichiganBeulah sits outside our named growing regions, so Michigan as a whole is its closest context here.