Sicangu Village, South Dakota, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Sicangu Village, no two yards are alike.
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Sicangu Village — the short answer
Sicangu Village, South Dakota: USDA zone 5a, about 161 days between hard freezes, across 152 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~161
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 152 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 Sicangu Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sicangu Village's 161-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sicangu Village
Each reading below is measured for Sicangu Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSicangu Village runs about 161 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
MeasuredSicangu Village 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 Sicangu Village is in
Sicangu Village sits in the Northwestern Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Sicangu Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Todd County.
What Grows in Sicangu Village
Every plant below cleared Sicangu Village's own zone 5a and its 161-day season. Each card opens that plant's South Dakota profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sicangu 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 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 11 — 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 Sicangu Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sicangu Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ROSEBUD CASINO FUEL PLAZAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- 35N28W10CCCNitrate · 1.5 mi
- 35N28W15BBBD2Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- 35N 28W29CC 1Nitrate · 4.7 mi
- 35N27W 3BBBBNitrate · 4.8 mi
- 35N27W 3BBBB4Nitrate · 4.8 mi
- 35N27W14BAABNitrate · 5.6 mi
- 35N29W 2DDDD2Nitrate · 5.9 mi
- 36N28W15BABB2Nitrate · 6.4 mi
- 36N28W15BABB3Nitrate · 6.4 mi
- CITY OF VALENTINE/WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.0 mi
- 36N28W10BBBBNitrate · 7.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sicangu 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 Sicangu Village.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sicangu Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sicangu Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sicangu Village, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 42 sites within ~10 miles of Sicangu Village. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Sicangu Village
Everything above resolves to Sicangu Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 152 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 Sicangu Village Average
Sicangu Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Sicangu Village
- ●One soil character for all of Sicangu Village
- ●Frost dates read at Sicangu Village's scale: May 3 to Oct 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sicangu Village's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sicangu Village, South Dakota — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Sicangu Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Sicangu 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 Sicangu 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 Sicangu Village
When does frost risk typically end in Sicangu Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sicangu Village typically lands around May 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Sicangu Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sicangu Village typically arrives around Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 27, so the watching starts about Sep 11 — about 161 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sicangu Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sicangu Village sees about 161 frost-free days — roughly May 3 through Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 24 to Sep 27, about 126 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sicangu Village?
The federal record around Sicangu Village is light — 49 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (42), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Sicangu Village?
From about Sep 11 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sicangu Village's scale — its 5a band and its 161-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sicangu 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 Sicangu Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Sicangu Village's own scale — its own ~161-day season between 28°F freezes, the 152 acres it covers and 49 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sicangu Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sicangu Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 3 and Oct 11 and the ~161-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 49 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sicangu Village, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sicangu Village's boundary and the 152 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~161-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Sicangu 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 Sicangu Village's 152 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Todd County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Todd County
- The growing challenges every South Dakota grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom South Dakota
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Todd County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sicangu Village's 152 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sicangu 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 152 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Sicangu Village-wide figureread your own land →
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