New Point, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 New Point, 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 New Point lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Point — the short answer
New Point, Indiana: USDA zone 6b, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 200 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~214
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 200 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 New Point's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Point's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Point
Each reading below is measured for New Point itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Point 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
MeasuredNew Point 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 New Point is in
New Point sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Point's own centroid rather than borrowed from Decatur County.
What Grows in New Point
Every plant below cleared New Point's own zone 6b and its 214-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Point?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — 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 New Point
Survey cells within 31 miles of New Point checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 36 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Point
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Point. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NAPOLEON COMMUNITY RURAL WATER CORP.PFAS · 500 ft
- New Point Food MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- Liquid Transportation SystemUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- WOOD-MIZER PRODS INCToxics Release Inventory · 2400 ft
- Petro 379Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- HOT MIX INCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- New Point Stone Company Incorporated New Point QuarryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- PULSKAMP'S AUTO BODYBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- KRAMER FEED MILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- BUTCH KENNEDYS ANTIQUESUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- BATESVILLE MUNICIPAL SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- Batesville Aviation Services LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Point'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 New Point.
Total Sites
194
within ~10 miles of New Point
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
25 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Point
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Point
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Point, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of New Point — Toxics Release Inventory (25 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in New Point
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 New Point average
Your land is one point inside New Point
Everything above resolves to New Point as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 200 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 New Point Average
New Point Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across New Point
- ●One soil character for all of New Point
- ●Frost dates read at New Point's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Point's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Point
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Point, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Point averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Point — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Point average
How we know this about New Point
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 New Point’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 New Point
When does frost risk typically end in New Point?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Point typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in New Point?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Point typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Point?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Point sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 21, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Point?
The federal record around New Point shows 194 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (121), the nearest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in New Point?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Point's scale — its 6b band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Point'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 New Point’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Point's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 200 acres it covers and 194 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Point's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Point's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 4 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 194 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Point, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Point's boundary and the 200 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~214-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Point's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around New Point 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 New Point's 200 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Decatur County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Decatur 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 Decatur County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Point's 200 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Point you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 200 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS 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 New Point-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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