Four Bears Village, North Dakota, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Four Bears Village, 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 Four Bears Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Four Bears Village — the short answer
Four Bears Village, North Dakota: USDA zone 4a, about 152 days between hard freezes, across 653 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~152
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 653 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 4a is Four Bears Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Four Bears Village's 152-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Four Bears Village
Each reading below is measured for Four Bears Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFour Bears Village runs about 152 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
MeasuredFour Bears Village sits in USDA hardiness zone 4a.
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 Four Bears Village is in
Four Bears Village sits in the Northwestern Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Four Bears Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from McKenzie County.
What Grows in Four Bears Village
Every plant below cleared Four Bears Village's own zone 4a and its 152-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Dakota profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Four Bears Village?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Four Bears Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Four Bears Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Four Bears Convenience Store (Eagles Landing)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Four Bears Convenience Store (Pocket Aces)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Four Bears MarinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- NEWTON COMPLETION FLUIDSBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- 152-093-26BCCNitrate · 2.7 mi
- 153-092-31DBDNitrate · 3.3 mi
- United Quality Travel PlazaUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- 152-092-19AABNitrate · 4.5 mi
- United Prairie CooperativeUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- 152-092-19AAA3Nitrate · 4.6 mi
- West Dakota ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- 152-092-20BBB2Nitrate · 4.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Four Bears Village'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 Four Bears Village.
Total Sites
83
within ~10 miles of Four Bears Village
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Four Bears Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Four Bears Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Four Bears Village, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 58 sites within ~10 miles of Four Bears Village. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Four Bears Village
Everything above resolves to Four Bears Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 653 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 Four Bears Village Average
Four Bears Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 4a, averaged across Four Bears Village
- ●One soil character for all of Four Bears Village
- ●Frost dates read at Four Bears Village's scale: May 5 to Oct 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Four Bears Village's 4a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Four Bears Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Four Bears Village, North Dakota — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Four Bears Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Four Bears Village average
How we know this about Four Bears Village
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 Four Bears Village’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 Four Bears Village
When does frost risk typically end in Four Bears Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Four Bears Village typically lands around May 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Four Bears Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Four Bears Village typically arrives around Oct 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 20, so the watching starts about Sep 4 — about 152 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Four Bears Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Four Bears Village sees about 152 frost-free days — roughly May 5 through Oct 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 26 to Sep 20, about 117 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Four Bears Village?
The federal record around Four Bears Village shows 83 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (58), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Four Bears Village?
From about Sep 4 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Four Bears Village's scale — its 4a band and its 152-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Four Bears Village'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 Four Bears Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Four Bears Village's own scale — its own ~152-day season between 28°F freezes, the 653 acres it covers and 83 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Four Bears Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Four Bears Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 5 and Oct 4 and the ~152-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 83 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Four Bears Village, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Four Bears Village's boundary and the 653 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4a and a ~152-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Four Bears Village's own centroid, the Northwestern Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Four Bears Village's 653 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom McKenzie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom McKenzie County
- The growing challenges every North Dakota grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom North Dakota
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom McKenzie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Four Bears Village's 653 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Four Bears Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 653 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Four Bears Village-wide figureread your own land →
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