Miesville, Minnesota, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Miesville, 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 Miesville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Miesville — the short answer
Miesville, Minnesota: USDA zone 4b, about 182 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 19
- 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
- ~182
- 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 4b is Miesville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Miesville's 182-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Miesville
Each reading below is measured for Miesville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMiesville runs about 182 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
MeasuredMiesville sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b.
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 Miesville is in
Miesville sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Miesville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Dakota County.
What Grows in Miesville
Every plant below cleared Miesville's own zone 4b and its 182-day season. Each card opens that plant's Minnesota profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Miesville?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 19 (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 Miesville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Miesville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Niebur Oil CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- NIEBERT IMPLEMENTBrownfields · 1100 ft
- PSN ENTERPRISES INCBrownfields · 1300 ft
- SCPF Industries Of Hastings IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- River Country CoopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- MOLITOR BROTHERS FARM - CANNON FALLSBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- AUTO TRK SVCTRBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- KEN'S AUTO REPAIRBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- PDCJ-U17 113N17W26ABBCDC01 0000464091Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- PEINE FARMS LLPCAFO · 2.4 mi
- ARKAY'S SERVICES INCBrownfields · 2.5 mi
- KIMMES BAUER WELL DRILLING INCBrownfields · 2.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Miesville'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 Miesville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Miesville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Miesville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Miesville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Miesville — Nitrate (190 sites) and CAFO (5 sites). 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.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Miesville
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 Miesville average
Your land is one point inside Miesville
Everything above resolves to Miesville 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 Miesville Average
Miesville Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Miesville
- ●One soil character for all of Miesville
- ●Frost dates read at Miesville's scale: Apr 19 to Oct 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Miesville's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Miesville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Miesville, Minnesota — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Miesville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Miesville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Miesville
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 Miesville’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 Miesville
When does frost risk typically end in Miesville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Miesville typically lands around Apr 19, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Miesville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Miesville 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 182 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Miesville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Miesville sees about 182 frost-free days — roughly Apr 19 through Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 10 to Oct 4, about 147 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Miesville?
The federal record around Miesville is a meaningful one — 504 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (198), 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 Miesville?
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 Miesville's scale — its 4b band and its 182-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Miesville'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 Miesville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Miesville's own scale — its own ~182-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,118 acres it covers and 504 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Miesville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Miesville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 19 and Oct 18 and the ~182-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 504 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Miesville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Miesville's boundary and the 1,118 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~182-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Miesville'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 Miesville's 1,118 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dakota County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dakota 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 Dakota County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Miesville's 1,118 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Miesville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,118 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 Miesville-wide figureread your own land →
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