Lidgerwood, North Dakota, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lidgerwood, 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 Lidgerwood lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lidgerwood — the short answer
Lidgerwood, North Dakota: USDA zone 4b, about 173 days between hard freezes, across 423 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~173
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 423 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 Lidgerwood's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lidgerwood's 173-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lidgerwood
Each reading below is measured for Lidgerwood itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLidgerwood runs about 173 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
MeasuredLidgerwood 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 Lidgerwood is in
Lidgerwood sits in the Northern Glaciated Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lidgerwood's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Richland County is mostly Lake Agassiz Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Lidgerwood
Every plant below cleared Lidgerwood's own zone 4b and its 173-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Dakota profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lidgerwood?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 12 — 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 Lidgerwood
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lidgerwood. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Lidgerwood Public SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- Diamond 1 StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- North Dakota State Dept of TransportationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Burlington Northern RR (former Kutters Service)Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Dakota Plains AgUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- 130-052-13BCBNitrate · 2600 ft
- 130-052-12BCBNitrate · 1.1 mi
- TITAN MACHINERY INC. - LIDGERWOODBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- 130-052-10CCANitrate · 2.4 mi
- 131-051-31DBANitrate · 3.1 mi
- 130-052-29DAANitrate · 4.2 mi
- 129-051-07AAANitrate · 5.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lidgerwood'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 Lidgerwood.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lidgerwood
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lidgerwood
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lidgerwood, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 56 sites within ~10 miles of Lidgerwood. 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).
Check your specific parcel in Lidgerwood
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 Lidgerwood average
Your land is one point inside Lidgerwood
Everything above resolves to Lidgerwood as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 423 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 Lidgerwood Average
Lidgerwood Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Lidgerwood
- ●One soil character for all of Lidgerwood
- ●Frost dates read at Lidgerwood's scale: Apr 22 to Oct 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lidgerwood's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lidgerwood
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lidgerwood, North Dakota — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lidgerwood averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lidgerwood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lidgerwood average
How we know this about Lidgerwood
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 Lidgerwood’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 Lidgerwood
When does frost risk typically end in Lidgerwood?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lidgerwood typically lands around Apr 22, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Lidgerwood?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lidgerwood typically arrives around Oct 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 28, so the watching starts about Sep 12 — about 173 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lidgerwood?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lidgerwood sees about 173 frost-free days — roughly Apr 22 through Oct 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 13 to Sep 28, about 138 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lidgerwood?
The federal record around Lidgerwood is a meaningful one — 64 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (56), 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 Lidgerwood?
From about Sep 12 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lidgerwood's scale — its 4b band and its 173-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lidgerwood'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 Lidgerwood’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lidgerwood's own scale — its own ~173-day season between 28°F freezes, the 423 acres it covers and 64 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lidgerwood's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lidgerwood's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 22 and Oct 12 and the ~173-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 64 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lidgerwood, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lidgerwood's boundary and the 423 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~173-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lidgerwood sits in the Northern Glaciated Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lidgerwood's 423 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Richland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Richland 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 Richland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lidgerwood's 423 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lidgerwood you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 423 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 Lidgerwood-wide figureread your own land →
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