New Richmond, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Richmond, 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 Richmond 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 New Richmond — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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New Richmond — the short answer
New Richmond, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 199 days between hard freezes, across 123 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~199
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 123 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 New Richmond's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Richmond's 199-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Richmond
Each reading below is measured for New Richmond itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Richmond runs about 199 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredNew Richmond 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 New Richmond is in
New Richmond sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Richmond's own centroid rather than borrowed from Montgomery County.
What Grows in New Richmond
Every plant below cleared New Richmond's own zone 6a and its 199-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Richmond?
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 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around New Richmond
Survey cells within 31 miles of New Richmond checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 49 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Richmond
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Richmond. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TDS TELECOMUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- THAYERS STANDARD SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- WELL MONT15 CR 400W NR NEW RICHMOND, INNitrate · 1.7 mi
- VALERO LINDEN PLANTBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- VALERO LINDEN PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 3.6 mi
- CARGILL INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- Linden Food PlazaUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- SULLIVAN CONSULTING SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- TIRE CAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- R & T ENTERPRISEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- NORTH MONTGOMERY SCHOOL CORP ADMIN BUILDINGBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- Tipmont Rural Electric Membership Corporation IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Richmond'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 Richmond.
Total Sites
73
within ~10 miles of New Richmond
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Richmond
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Richmond
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in New Richmond
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Your land is one point inside New Richmond
Everything above resolves to New Richmond as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 123 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 Richmond Average
New Richmond Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across New Richmond
- ●One soil character for all of New Richmond
- ●Frost dates read at New Richmond's scale: Apr 8 to Oct 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Richmond's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Richmond
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Richmond, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Richmond averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Richmond — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Richmond average
How we know this about New Richmond
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 Richmond’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 Richmond
When does frost risk typically end in New Richmond?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Richmond typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in New Richmond?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Richmond typically arrives around Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 10, so the watching starts about Sep 24 — about 199 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Richmond?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Richmond sees about 199 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 10, about 164 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Richmond?
The federal record around New Richmond shows 73 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (40), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Richmond?
From about Sep 24 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Richmond's scale — its 6a band and its 199-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Richmond'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 Richmond’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Richmond's own scale — its own ~199-day season between 28°F freezes, the 123 acres it covers and 73 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Richmond's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Richmond's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Oct 24 and the ~199-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 73 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Richmond, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Richmond's boundary and the 123 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~199-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Richmond's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around New Richmond 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 Richmond's 123 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Montgomery County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Montgomery 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 Montgomery County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Richmond's 123 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Richmond you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 123 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 New Richmond-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across IndianaNew Richmond sits outside our named growing regions, so Indiana as a whole is its closest context here.