Logansport, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Logansport, 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 Logansport lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Logansport — the short answer
Logansport, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 7K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~212
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 7K 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 Logansport's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Logansport's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Logansport
Each reading below is measured for Logansport itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLogansport runs about 212 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
MeasuredLogansport 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 Logansport is in
Logansport sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Logansport's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cass County.
What Grows in Logansport
Every plant below cleared Logansport's own zone 6a and its 212-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Logansport?
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 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — 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 Logansport
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Logansport, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Logansport
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Logansport. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VERIZON NORTH INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- VERIZON NORTH INCBrownfields · 900 ft
- Martins Erie Gas & DairyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Mikes Auto ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- SUMMIT EMS CORPORATIONToxics Release Inventory · 1700 ft
- SALT STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- ROBERT A POWELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- EIS FIBERCOATING, INCToxics Release Inventory · 2200 ft
- LOGAN STAMPINGToxics Release Inventory · 2300 ft
- JOSEPH R SELVIOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- LOGANSPORT LUBER COMPANY INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- TOW PATH RANCH TRAINING SITEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Logansport'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 Logansport.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Logansport
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Logansport
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Logansport, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Logansport — Toxics Release Inventory (28 sites) and Superfund (3 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Logansport
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 Logansport average
Your land is one point inside Logansport
Everything above resolves to Logansport as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 7K 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 city 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 Logansport Average
Logansport Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Logansport
- ●One soil character for all of Logansport
- ●Frost dates read at Logansport's scale: Apr 7 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Logansport's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Logansport
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Logansport, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Logansport averages can't show:
We read public map data around Logansport — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Logansport average
How we know this about Logansport
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Logansport’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Logansport
When does frost risk typically end in Logansport?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Logansport typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Logansport?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Logansport typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Logansport?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Logansport sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 22, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Logansport?
The federal record around Logansport is a meaningful one — 230 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (139), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Logansport?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Logansport's scale — its 6a band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Logansport'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 Logansport’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Logansport's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 6,716 acres it covers and 230 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Logansport's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Logansport's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Nov 5 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 230 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Logansport, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Logansport's boundary and the 6,716 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~212-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Logansport's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Logansportlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Logansport's 6,716 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cass County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cass 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 Cass County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Logansport's 6,716 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Logansport you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,716 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Logansport-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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