Lewisville, Minnesota, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lewisville, 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 Lewisville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lewisville — the short answer
Lewisville, Minnesota: USDA zone 5a, about 185 days between hard freezes, across 157 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~185
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 157 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 Lewisville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lewisville's 185-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lewisville
Each reading below is measured for Lewisville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLewisville runs about 185 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
MeasuredLewisville 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 Lewisville is in
Lewisville sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lewisville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Watonwan County.
What Grows in Lewisville
Every plant below cleared Lewisville's own zone 5a and its 185-day season. Each card opens that plant's Minnesota profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lewisville?
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 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Lewisville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lewisville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Truman Farmers ElevatorUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Former Cup of Jo C-StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Jeffs Eastside ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Watonwan Farm Service Co - LewisvilleUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Lewisville MotorsUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- GREIERCAFO · 0.5 mi
- Us West CommunicationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- CORRY PETTERSEN FARMLAND SITECAFO · 2.7 mi
- 501615Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- FIELDON FINISHERS LLPCAFO · 3.5 mi
- C&S SWINECAFO · 3.8 mi
- 760688Nitrate · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lewisville'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 Lewisville.
Total Sites
143
within ~10 miles of Lewisville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lewisville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lewisville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lewisville, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 24 sites within ~10 miles of Lewisville. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Lewisville
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 Lewisville
Everything above resolves to Lewisville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 157 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 Lewisville Average
Lewisville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Lewisville
- ●One soil character for all of Lewisville
- ●Frost dates read at Lewisville's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lewisville's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Lewisville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Lewisville
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 Lewisville’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 Lewisville
When does frost risk typically end in Lewisville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lewisville typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Lewisville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lewisville typically arrives around Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 4, so the watching starts about Sep 18 — about 185 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lewisville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lewisville sees about 185 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 4, about 150 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lewisville?
The federal record around Lewisville is a meaningful one — 143 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (47), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Lewisville?
From about Sep 18 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lewisville's scale — its 5a band and its 185-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lewisville'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 Lewisville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lewisville's own scale — its own ~185-day season between 28°F freezes, the 157 acres it covers and 143 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lewisville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lewisville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 18 and the ~185-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 143 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lewisville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lewisville's boundary and the 157 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~185-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lewisville'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 Lewisville's 157 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Watonwan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Watonwan 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 Watonwan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lewisville's 157 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lewisville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 157 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Lewisville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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