Pine Village, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Pine Village, 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 Pine Village 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 Pine Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Pine Village — the short answer
Pine Village, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 199 days between hard freezes, across 77 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
- 77 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 Pine Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pine Village's 199-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pine Village
Each reading below is measured for Pine Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPine Village 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
MeasuredPine Village 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 Pine Village is in
Pine Village sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pine Village's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Warren County is mostly Central Corn Belt Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Pine Village
Every plant below cleared Pine Village'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 Pine Village?
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 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 Pine Village
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pine Village checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 51 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pine Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pine Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- McCoskey 66 Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- PINE VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- RIVERSIDE 66Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- H & H TRANSPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- BLANKENSHIP GENERAL STORE INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- Keiths ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- BP Food MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE 11937Brownfields · 4.8 mi
- POLAND DAIRY FARMCAFO · 4.8 mi
- Oxford 66 StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- OXFORD UTILITIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- INCOTEC FIELD CROPS NORTH AMERICA LLCBrownfields · 5.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pine Village'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 Pine Village.
Total Sites
40
within ~10 miles of Pine Village
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pine Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pine Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pine Village, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 32 sites within ~10 miles of Pine Village. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Pine Village
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 Pine Village
Everything above resolves to Pine Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 77 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 Pine Village Average
Pine Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Pine Village
- ●One soil character for all of Pine Village
- ●Frost dates read at Pine Village's scale: Apr 8 to Oct 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pine Village's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pine Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pine Village, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pine Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pine Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pine Village average
How we know this about Pine Village
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 Pine Village’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 Pine Village
When does frost risk typically end in Pine Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pine Village 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 Pine Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pine Village 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 Pine Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pine Village 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 Pine Village?
The federal record around Pine Village is light — 40 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (32), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Pine Village?
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 Pine Village's scale — its 6a band and its 199-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pine Village'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 Pine Village’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pine Village's own scale — its own ~199-day season between 28°F freezes, the 77 acres it covers and 40 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pine Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pine Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Oct 24 and the ~199-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 40 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pine Village, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pine Village's boundary and the 77 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~199-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Pine Village sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pine Village 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 Pine Village's 77 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Warren County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Warren 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 Warren County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pine Village's 77 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pine Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 77 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 Pine Village-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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