Goodview, Minnesota, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Goodview, 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 Goodview lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Goodview — the short answer
Goodview, Minnesota: USDA zone 5a, about 200 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~200
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 1K 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 5a is Goodview's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Goodview's 200-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Goodview
Each reading below is measured for Goodview itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGoodview runs about 200 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
MeasuredGoodview sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
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 Goodview is in
Goodview sits in the Driftless Area — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Goodview's own centroid rather than borrowed from Winona County.
What Grows in Goodview
Every plant below cleared Goodview's own zone 5a and its 200-day season. Each card opens that plant's Minnesota profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Goodview?
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 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 26 — 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 Goodview
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Goodview. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MATTHEES ENTERPRISESBrownfields · 1100 ft
- Traco Oil CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Winona ReadymixUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Winona Truck Station No 91218Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Winona County Highway DepartmentUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Dunn Blacktop Co/div Of Mathy ConstUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- MNDOT DISTRICT 6A WINONABrownfields · 1600 ft
- WINGFOOT COMMERCIAL TIRE SYSTBrownfields · 1800 ft
- BADGER EQUIPMENT COToxics Release Inventory · 1900 ft
- XCEL ENERGY - WINONA SERVICEBrownfields · 2200 ft
- MCC MANUFACTURING, INC.Brownfields · 2300 ft
- BORKOWSKI TOWING & SALVAGE-Brownfields · 2400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Goodview'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 Goodview.
Total Sites
421
within ~10 miles of Goodview
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Goodview
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Goodview
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Goodview, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 214 sites within ~10 miles of Goodview. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Goodview
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 Goodview average
Your land is one point inside Goodview
Everything above resolves to Goodview as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Goodview Average
Goodview Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Goodview
- ●One soil character for all of Goodview
- ●Frost dates read at Goodview's scale: Apr 9 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Goodview's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Goodview
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Goodview, Minnesota — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Goodview averages can't show:
We read public map data around Goodview — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Goodview average
How we know this about Goodview
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 Goodview’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 Goodview
When does frost risk typically end in Goodview?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Goodview typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Goodview?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Goodview typically arrives around Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 12, so the watching starts about Sep 26 — about 200 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Goodview?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Goodview sees about 200 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 12, about 165 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Goodview?
The federal record around Goodview is a meaningful one — 421 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (214), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Goodview?
From about Sep 26 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Goodview's scale — its 5a band and its 200-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Goodview'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 Goodview’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Goodview's own scale — its own ~200-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,419 acres it covers and 421 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Goodview's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Goodview's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Oct 26 and the ~200-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 421 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Goodview, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Goodview's boundary and the 1,419 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~200-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Goodview's own centroid, the Driftless AreaUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Goodview's 1,419 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Winona County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Winona County
- The growing challenges every Minnesota grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Minnesota
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Winona County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Goodview's 1,419 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Goodview you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,419 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Goodview-wide figureread your own land →
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