Fairview Park, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Fairview Park, 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 Fairview Park lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Fairview Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Fairview Park — the short answer
Fairview Park, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 559 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~214
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 559 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 Fairview Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fairview Park's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fairview Park
Each reading below is measured for Fairview Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFairview Park runs about 214 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
MeasuredFairview Park 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 Fairview Park is in
Fairview Park sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Fairview Park's own centroid rather than borrowed from Vermillion County.
What Grows in Fairview Park
Every plant below cleared Fairview Park's own zone 6a and its 214-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fairview Park?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Fairview Park
Survey cells within 31 miles of Fairview Park checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 91 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Fairview Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fairview Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HARBOR RAIL SERVICESBrownfields · 1200 ft
- SOUTH VERMILLION HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- CORNER STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- G & P Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Caseys General Store 1976Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- CLINTON LABORATORIESToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- Buels SunocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- NEW NGC INC. D/B/A NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPAToxics Release Inventory · 0.7 mi
- Duke EnergyUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- KENLY PLASTICSSuperfund · 0.8 mi
- TERRECORPBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- TERRECORPToxics Release Inventory · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fairview Park'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 Fairview Park.
Total Sites
155
within ~10 miles of Fairview Park
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fairview Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fairview Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fairview Park, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Fairview Park — Superfund (3 sites) and Nitrate (52 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Fairview Park
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Fairview Park
Everything above resolves to Fairview Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 559 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 Fairview Park Average
Fairview Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Fairview Park
- ●One soil character for all of Fairview Park
- ●Frost dates read at Fairview Park's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fairview Park's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fairview Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fairview Park, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fairview Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fairview Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fairview Park average
How we know this about Fairview Park
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 Fairview Park’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 Fairview Park
When does frost risk typically end in Fairview Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fairview Park typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Fairview Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fairview Park typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fairview Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fairview Park sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 19, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fairview Park?
The federal record around Fairview Park is a meaningful one — 155 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (74), the nearest Brownfields 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 Fairview Park?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fairview Park's scale — its 6a band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fairview Park'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 Fairview Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Fairview Park's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 559 acres it covers and 155 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fairview Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fairview Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 2 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 155 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fairview Park, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fairview Park's boundary and the 559 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~214-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Fairview Park's own centroid, the Interior River Valleys and HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Fairview Park 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 Fairview Park's 559 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Vermillion County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Vermillion 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 Vermillion County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fairview Park's 559 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fairview Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 559 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Fairview Park-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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