Odon, 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 Odon, 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 Odon 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 Odon — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Odon — the short answer
Odon, Indiana: USDA zone 6b, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 595 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- 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
- ~214
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 595 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 Odon's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Odon's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Odon
Each reading below is measured for Odon itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredOdon 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
MeasuredOdon 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 Odon is in
Odon sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Odon's own centroid rather than borrowed from Daviess County.
What Grows in Odon
Every plant below cleared Odon'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 Odon?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (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 Odon
Survey cells within 31 miles of Odon checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 110 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Odon
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Odon. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ODON GARAGE INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- WOODRUFF AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- MAIN STREET SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- CASEYS GENERAL STORES 2829Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- SHANDARELL FARLEN CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- JAY C FOOD STORE #56Brownfields · 1600 ft
- ROBERT D HAYESUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- BP FOOD MART NO 7Underground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Leon CorneliusUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- GREEN CITY CABINETSBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- ODON VAULT COMPANY INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- EASTERN HEIGHTS UTILITIESPFAS · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Odon'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 Odon.
Total Sites
78
within ~10 miles of Odon
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Odon
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Odon
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Odon, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 6 sites within ~10 miles of Odon. 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.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Odon
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Odon
Everything above resolves to Odon as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 595 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 Odon Average
Odon Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Odon
- ●One soil character for all of Odon
- ●Frost dates read at Odon's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Odon's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Odon
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Odon, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Odon averages can't show:
We read public map data around Odon — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Odon average
How we know this about Odon
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 Odon’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 Odon
When does frost risk typically end in Odon?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Odon typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Odon?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Odon 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 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Odon?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Odon sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 19, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Odon?
The federal record around Odon is a meaningful one — 78 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (35), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Odon?
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 Odon's scale — its 6b band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Odon'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 Odon’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Odon's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 595 acres it covers and 78 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Odon's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Odon's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 2 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 78 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Odon, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Odon's boundary and the 595 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 Odon's own centroid, the Interior River Valleys and HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Odon 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 Odon's 595 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Daviess County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Daviess 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 Daviess County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Odon's 595 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Odon you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 595 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Odon-wide figureread your own land →