Bazile Mills, Nebraska, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Bazile Mills, 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 Bazile Mills lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bazile Mills — the short answer
Bazile Mills, Nebraska: USDA zone 5a, about 184 days between hard freezes, across 312 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~184
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 312 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 Bazile Mills's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bazile Mills's 184-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bazile Mills
Each reading below is measured for Bazile Mills itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBazile Mills runs about 184 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
MeasuredBazile Mills 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 Bazile Mills is in
Bazile Mills sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Bazile Mills's own centroid rather than borrowed from Knox County.
What Grows in Bazile Mills
Every plant below cleared Bazile Mills's own zone 5a and its 184-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nebraska profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bazile Mills?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 19 — 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 Bazile Mills
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bazile Mills. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CREIGHTON OIL INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- C-MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- B & B CLEANERSBrownfields · 3.2 mi
- 59 EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- MOELLER EQUIPMENTBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- CREIGHTON CHEMICAL SITEBrownfields · 3.7 mi
- WARREN WORTMAN LIVESTOCKCAFO · 4.8 mi
- KNOX COUNTY FEEDERS INCCAFO · 8.1 mi
- 30N 6W 8AD 1Nitrate · 8.3 mi
- GORDON MCELHOSE TRKG & CONSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.6 mi
- VERDIGRE FARM SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.6 mi
- WALTs IMPLEMENTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.6 mi
2 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bazile Mills'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 Bazile Mills.
Total Sites
16
within ~10 miles of Bazile Mills
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bazile Mills
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bazile Mills
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
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Your land is one point inside Bazile Mills
Everything above resolves to Bazile Mills as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 312 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 Bazile Mills Average
Bazile Mills Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Bazile Mills
- ●One soil character for all of Bazile Mills
- ●Frost dates read at Bazile Mills's scale: Apr 18 to Oct 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bazile Mills's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bazile Mills
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bazile Mills, Nebraska — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Bazile Mills — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bazile Mills average
How we know this about Bazile Mills
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 Bazile Mills’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 Bazile Mills
When does frost risk typically end in Bazile Mills?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bazile Mills typically lands around Apr 18, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Bazile Mills?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bazile Mills typically arrives around Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 5, so the watching starts about Sep 19 — about 184 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bazile Mills?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bazile Mills sees about 184 frost-free days — roughly Apr 18 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 9 to Oct 5, about 149 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bazile Mills?
The federal record around Bazile Mills is light — 16 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (7), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.7 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Bazile Mills?
From about Sep 19 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bazile Mills's scale — its 5a band and its 184-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bazile Mills'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 Bazile Mills’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Bazile Mills's own scale — its own ~184-day season between 28°F freezes, the 312 acres it covers and 16 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bazile Mills's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bazile Mills's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 18 and Oct 19 and the ~184-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 16 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bazile Mills, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bazile Mills's boundary and the 312 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~184-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bazile Mills'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 Bazile Mills's 312 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Knox County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Knox County
- The growing challenges every Nebraska grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Nebraska
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Knox County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bazile Mills's 312 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bazile Mills you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 312 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.7 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 Bazile Mills-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across NebraskaBazile Mills sits outside our named growing regions, so Nebraska as a whole is its closest context here.