Bippus, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Bippus, 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 Bippus lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bippus — the short answer
Bippus, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 206 days between hard freezes, across 132 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~206
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 132 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 6a is Bippus's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bippus's 206-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bippus
Each reading below is measured for Bippus itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBippus runs about 206 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBippus sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Bippus is in
Bippus sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bippus's own centroid rather than borrowed from Huntington County.
What Grows in Bippus
Every plant below cleared Bippus's own zone 6a and its 206-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bippus?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Bippus
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Bippus, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bippus
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bippus. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KNECHT EXCAVATING INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- North Central Cooperative IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- US POST OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- HARTZLER TRUCKING COMPANY INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- DEXTER AXLE COMPANYToxics Release Inventory · 4.7 mi
- DEXTER AXLE COMPANYBrownfields · 4.7 mi
- NORWOOD GOLF COURSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- Former M & B Dairy StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- REED TRACTOR SVC INCBrownfields · 5.1 mi
- Andrews Municipal Waste Water Treatment PlantUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- KUNKLE FOUNDRY CO INCBrownfields · 5.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bippus'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 Bippus.
Total Sites
239
within ~10 miles of Bippus
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bippus
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bippus
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bippus, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 40 sites within ~10 miles of Bippus. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Bippus
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 Bippus average
Your land is one point inside Bippus
Everything above resolves to Bippus as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 132 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 Bippus Average
Bippus Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Bippus
- ●One soil character for all of Bippus
- ●Frost dates read at Bippus's scale: Apr 9 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bippus's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bippus
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bippus, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bippus averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bippus — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Bippus
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 Bippus’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 Bippus
When does frost risk typically end in Bippus?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bippus typically lands around Apr 9, 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 Apr 30.
When is the first frost in Bippus?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bippus typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 206 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bippus?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bippus sees about 206 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 18, about 171 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bippus?
The federal record around Bippus is a meaningful one — 239 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (133), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Bippus?
From about Oct 2 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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bippus's scale — its 6a band and its 206-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bippus'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 Bippus’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bippus's own scale — its own ~206-day season between 28°F freezes, the 132 acres it covers and 239 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bippus's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bippus's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Nov 1 and the ~206-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 239 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bippus, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bippus's boundary and the 132 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~206-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bippus's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Bippuslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bippus's 132 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Huntington County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Huntington County
- The growing challenges every Indiana grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Indiana
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Huntington County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bippus's 132 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bippus you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 132 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Bippus-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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