Nyona Lake, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Nyona Lake, 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 Nyona Lake 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 Nyona Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
Nyona Lake — the short answer
Nyona Lake, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 207 days between hard freezes, across 241 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~207
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 241 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 Nyona Lake's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Nyona Lake's 207-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Nyona Lake
Each reading below is measured for Nyona Lake itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNyona Lake runs about 207 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
MeasuredNyona Lake 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 Nyona Lake is in
Nyona Lake sits in the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Nyona Lake's own centroid rather than borrowed from Fulton County.
What Grows in Nyona Lake
Every plant below cleared Nyona Lake's own zone 6a and its 207-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Nyona Lake?
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 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — 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 Nyona Lake
Spotted lanternfly documented 19 miles from Nyona Lake, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Nyona Lake
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Nyona Lake. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SPECKS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- GTE NORTH INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- MACY ELEVATOR INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- SHOWLEY FARMS INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- Gas & More IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- LEROY W ROUCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- R FARMS INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- BEATTIE OIL INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- Crop Production Services 545Underground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- Ramsey FarmUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- CLEMONS ANTIQUES STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- Fulton County Highway DepartmentUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Nyona Lake'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 Nyona Lake.
Total Sites
150
within ~10 miles of Nyona Lake
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Nyona Lake
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Nyona Lake
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Nyona Lake, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Nyona Lake — Toxics Release Inventory (14 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (103 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.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Nyona Lake
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 Nyona Lake average
Your land is one point inside Nyona Lake
Everything above resolves to Nyona Lake as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 241 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 Nyona Lake Average
Nyona Lake Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Nyona Lake
- ●One soil character for all of Nyona Lake
- ●Frost dates read at Nyona Lake's scale: Apr 9 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Nyona Lake's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Nyona Lake
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Nyona Lake, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Nyona Lake averages can't show:
We read public map data around Nyona Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Nyona Lake average
How we know this about Nyona Lake
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 Nyona Lake’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 Nyona Lake
When does frost risk typically end in Nyona Lake?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Nyona Lake typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Nyona Lake?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Nyona Lake typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 207 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Nyona Lake?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Nyona Lake sees about 207 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 19, about 172 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Nyona Lake?
The federal record around Nyona Lake is a meaningful one — 150 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (103), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Nyona Lake?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Nyona Lake's scale — its 6a band and its 207-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Nyona Lake'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 Nyona Lake’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Nyona Lake's own scale — its own ~207-day season between 28°F freezes, the 241 acres it covers and 150 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Nyona Lake's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Nyona Lake's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Nov 2 and the ~207-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 150 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Nyona Lake, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Nyona Lake's boundary and the 241 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~207-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Nyona Lake's own centroid, the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Nyona Lakelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Nyona Lake's 241 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Fulton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Fulton 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 Fulton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Nyona Lake's 241 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Nyona Lake you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 241 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Nyona Lake-wide figureread your own land →
More in Indiana
Wider growing context
What grows across IndianaNyona Lake sits outside our named growing regions, so Indiana as a whole is its closest context here.
Nearby growing guides