Lanesville, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lanesville, 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 Lanesville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lanesville — the short answer
Lanesville, Indiana: USDA zone 6b, about 220 days between hard freezes, across 602 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- 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
- ~220
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 602 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 6b is Lanesville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lanesville's 220-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lanesville
Each reading below is measured for Lanesville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLanesville runs about 220 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
MeasuredLanesville sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Lanesville is in
Lanesville sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lanesville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Harrison County.
What Grows in Lanesville
Every plant below cleared Lanesville's own zone 6b and its 220-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lanesville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (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 Lanesville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Lanesville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 66 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lanesville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lanesville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- S & S SERVICESUnderground Storage Tanks · 75 ft
- LANESVILLE FOOD MART INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- HOPSCOTCH FOOD & DAIRY BARUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC HLO3Brownfields · 2.3 mi
- AT & T CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- LOUISE SULLIVANUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- AT & TUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- GEORGETOWN MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- JACKSON JENNINGS FARM BUREAU COOPERATIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- SEVEN ELEVEN FOODUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- ROBINSON GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- Georgetown Express MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lanesville'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 Lanesville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lanesville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lanesville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lanesville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lanesville — Toxics Release Inventory (67 sites) and Superfund (13 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Lanesville
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 Lanesville average
Your land is one point inside Lanesville
Everything above resolves to Lanesville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 602 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 Lanesville Average
Lanesville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lanesville
- ●One soil character for all of Lanesville
- ●Frost dates read at Lanesville's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lanesville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lanesville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lanesville, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lanesville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lanesville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lanesville average
How we know this about Lanesville
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 Lanesville’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 Lanesville
When does frost risk typically end in Lanesville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lanesville typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Lanesville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lanesville 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 220 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lanesville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lanesville sees about 220 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 24, about 185 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lanesville?
The federal record around Lanesville is a meaningful one — 744 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (403), 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 Lanesville?
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 Lanesville's scale — its 6b band and its 220-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lanesville'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 Lanesville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lanesville's own scale — its own ~220-day season between 28°F freezes, the 602 acres it covers and 744 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lanesville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lanesville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 7 and the ~220-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 744 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lanesville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lanesville's boundary and the 602 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~220-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lanesville's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Lanesville 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 Lanesville's 602 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 Lanesville's 602 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lanesville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 602 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 Lanesville-wide figureread your own land →