Haubstadt, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Haubstadt, 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 Haubstadt lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Haubstadt — the short answer
Haubstadt, Indiana: USDA zone 7a, about 228 days between hard freezes, across 456 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~228
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 456 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 Haubstadt's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Haubstadt's 228-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Haubstadt
Each reading below is measured for Haubstadt itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHaubstadt runs about 228 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
MeasuredHaubstadt 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 Haubstadt is in
Haubstadt sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Haubstadt's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gibson County.
What Grows in Haubstadt
Every plant below cleared Haubstadt's own zone 7a and its 228-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Haubstadt?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Haubstadt
Survey cells within 31 miles of Haubstadt checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 147 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Haubstadt
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Haubstadt. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GOHMAN ASPHALT & CONSTRUCTION INCBrownfields · 650 ft
- SUNRISE MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- DAVES AUTO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- HAUBSTADT CHRYSLERUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- Gohmann Asphalt Construction IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- HOOSIER DENT MANUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Posey County Cooperative LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- R & C BRANCHBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- FULL METAL ARMORYBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- Lakeview Truck Stop IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- FUEL STREAMERS OF INDIANA LLCBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- Pilot Flying J 647Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Haubstadt'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 Haubstadt.
Total Sites
177
within ~10 miles of Haubstadt
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Haubstadt
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Haubstadt
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Haubstadt, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Haubstadt — PFAS (4 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (11 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Haubstadt
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 Haubstadt
Everything above resolves to Haubstadt as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 456 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 Haubstadt Average
Haubstadt Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Haubstadt
- ●One soil character for all of Haubstadt
- ●Frost dates read at Haubstadt's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Haubstadt's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Haubstadt
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Haubstadt, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Haubstadt averages can't show:
We read public map data around Haubstadt — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Haubstadt average
How we know this about Haubstadt
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 Haubstadt’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 Haubstadt
When does frost risk typically end in Haubstadt?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Haubstadt typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Haubstadt?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Haubstadt typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 228 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Haubstadt?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Haubstadt sees about 228 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 26, about 193 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Haubstadt?
The federal record around Haubstadt is a meaningful one — 177 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (86), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Haubstadt?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Haubstadt's scale — its 7a band and its 228-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Haubstadt'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 Haubstadt’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Haubstadt's own scale — its own ~228-day season between 28°F freezes, the 456 acres it covers and 177 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Haubstadt's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Haubstadt's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 9 and the ~228-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 177 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Haubstadt, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Haubstadt's boundary and the 456 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~228-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Haubstadt's own centroid, the Interior River Valleys and HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Haubstadt 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 Haubstadt's 456 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gibson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gibson 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 Gibson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Haubstadt's 456 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Haubstadt you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 456 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Haubstadt-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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