Crandall, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Crandall, 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 Crandall lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Crandall — the short answer
Crandall, Indiana: USDA zone 7a, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 67 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 67 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 7a is Crandall's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Crandall's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Crandall
Each reading below is measured for Crandall itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCrandall runs about 221 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
MeasuredCrandall sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Crandall is in
Crandall sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Crandall's own centroid rather than borrowed from Harrison County.
What Grows in Crandall
Every plant below cleared Crandall's own zone 7a and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Crandall?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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 Crandall
Survey cells within 31 miles of Crandall checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 68 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Crandall
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Crandall. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GTE NORTH INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- CRANDALL HALL COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- GLENN S WALTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- KELLER MANUFACTURING CO INCToxics Release Inventory · 2.3 mi
- ASHER MILK HAULINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- IN DOT NEW SALISBURY UNIT SITE 65404Underground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Spend & SaveUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- DBA RITE AID 4652Brownfields · 2.5 mi
- BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- Schmidt Cabinet Company IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- SCHMIDT CABINET COMPANY, INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 2.6 mi
- New Salisbury Market LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Crandall'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 Crandall.
Total Sites
147
within ~10 miles of Crandall
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
10 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Crandall
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Crandall
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Crandall, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Crandall — PFAS (6 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (104 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Crandall
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 Crandall average
Your land is one point inside Crandall
Everything above resolves to Crandall as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 67 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 Crandall Average
Crandall Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Crandall
- ●One soil character for all of Crandall
- ●Frost dates read at Crandall's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Crandall's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Crandall
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Crandall, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Crandall averages can't show:
We read public map data around Crandall — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Crandall average
How we know this about Crandall
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 Crandall’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 Crandall
When does frost risk typically end in Crandall?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Crandall typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Crandall?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Crandall typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Crandall?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Crandall sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 24, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Crandall?
The federal record around Crandall is a meaningful one — 147 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (104), 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 Crandall?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Crandall's scale — its 7a band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Crandall'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 Crandall’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Crandall's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 67 acres it covers and 147 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Crandall's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Crandall's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 7 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 147 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Crandall, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Crandall's boundary and the 67 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Crandall's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Crandall checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Crandall's 67 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Harrison County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Harrison 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 Harrison County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Crandall's 67 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Crandall you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 67 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 Crandall-wide figureread your own land →