Lawrenceport, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Lawrenceport, 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 Lawrenceport 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 Lawrenceport — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lawrenceport — the short answer
Lawrenceport, Indiana: USDA zone 6b, about 206 days between hard freezes, across 349 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~206
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 349 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 Lawrenceport's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lawrenceport's 206-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lawrenceport
Each reading below is measured for Lawrenceport itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLawrenceport 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
MeasuredLawrenceport 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 Lawrenceport is in
Lawrenceport sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lawrenceport's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lawrence County.
What Grows in Lawrenceport
Every plant below cleared Lawrenceport's own zone 6b and its 206-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lawrenceport?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Lawrenceport
Survey cells within 31 miles of Lawrenceport checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 78 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lawrenceport
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lawrenceport. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NAWQA AG WELL FA6 AT LAWRENCEPORT, INNitrate · 0.9 mi
- SPRING MILL STATE PKBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- SPRING MILL STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- EASTSIDE SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- LEHIGH CEMENT COMPANY LLCBrownfields · 3.7 mi
- LEHIGH CEMENT COMPANY LLCToxics Release Inventory · 3.7 mi
- STEELTECH PARTNERS LLCToxics Release Inventory · 3.9 mi
- Lehigh Cement Company LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- REGAL BELOIT CORPToxics Release Inventory · 3.9 mi
- REGAL BELOIT CORPBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- BASIN MATERIALS HANDLING - STEEL TECHToxics Release Inventory · 3.9 mi
- IN DNR SOUTH REGION WILDLIFE HEADQUARTERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lawrenceport'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 Lawrenceport.
Total Sites
154
within ~10 miles of Lawrenceport
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lawrenceport
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lawrenceport
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lawrenceport, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lawrenceport — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (15 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Lawrenceport
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 Lawrenceport average
Your land is one point inside Lawrenceport
Everything above resolves to Lawrenceport as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 349 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 Lawrenceport Average
Lawrenceport Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lawrenceport
- ●One soil character for all of Lawrenceport
- ●Frost dates read at Lawrenceport's scale: Apr 6 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lawrenceport's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lawrenceport
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lawrenceport, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lawrenceport averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lawrenceport — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lawrenceport average
How we know this about Lawrenceport
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 Lawrenceport’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 Lawrenceport
When does frost risk typically end in Lawrenceport?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lawrenceport typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Lawrenceport?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lawrenceport typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 206 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lawrenceport?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lawrenceport sees about 206 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 15, about 171 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lawrenceport?
The federal record around Lawrenceport is a meaningful one — 154 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (97), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Lawrenceport?
From about Sep 29 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 Oct 29 (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 Oct 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lawrenceport's scale — its 6b band and its 206-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lawrenceport'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 Lawrenceport’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lawrenceport's own scale — its own ~206-day season between 28°F freezes, the 349 acres it covers and 154 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lawrenceport's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lawrenceport's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Oct 29 and the ~206-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 154 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lawrenceport, the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lawrenceport's boundary and the 349 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~206-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lawrenceport's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Lawrenceport 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 Lawrenceport's 349 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lawrence County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lawrence 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 Lawrence County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lawrenceport's 349 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lawrenceport you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 349 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Lawrenceport-wide figureread your own land →