Wyatt, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Wyatt, 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 Wyatt 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 Wyatt — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Wyatt — the short answer
Wyatt, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 198 days between hard freezes, across 642 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~198
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 642 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 Wyatt's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wyatt's 198-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wyatt
Each reading below is measured for Wyatt itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWyatt runs about 198 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
MeasuredWyatt 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 Wyatt is in
Wyatt sits in the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Wyatt's own centroid rather than borrowed from St. Joseph County.
What Grows in Wyatt
Every plant below cleared Wyatt's own zone 6a and its 198-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wyatt?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Wyatt
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Wyatt, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Wyatt
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wyatt. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WYATT TRADING COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- WYATT AMOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- FARMERS STATE BANKUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- WYATT FARM CENTER INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- ALICE SNYDERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- KINDER MORGAN RNG PRAIRIE VIEWBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- WOODLAND DISTRICT GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- RONALD SCHMALKUCHEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- GEORGE A ACCOEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- Pick of the ChickUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- PATRICK M GERAGHTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- OLD LAKEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wyatt'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 Wyatt.
Total Sites
595
within ~10 miles of Wyatt
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wyatt
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wyatt
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wyatt, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 77 sites within ~10 miles of Wyatt. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Wyatt
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 Wyatt
Everything above resolves to Wyatt as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 642 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 Wyatt Average
Wyatt Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Wyatt
- ●One soil character for all of Wyatt
- ●Frost dates read at Wyatt's scale: Apr 17 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wyatt's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wyatt
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wyatt, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wyatt averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wyatt — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wyatt average
How we know this about Wyatt
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 Wyatt’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 Wyatt
When does frost risk typically end in Wyatt?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wyatt typically lands around Apr 17, 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 May 8.
When is the first frost in Wyatt?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wyatt typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 198 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wyatt?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wyatt sees about 198 frost-free days — roughly Apr 17 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 8 to Oct 18, about 163 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wyatt?
The federal record around Wyatt is a meaningful one — 595 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (308), 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 Wyatt?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wyatt's scale — its 6a band and its 198-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wyatt'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 Wyatt’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Wyatt's own scale — its own ~198-day season between 28°F freezes, the 642 acres it covers and 595 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wyatt's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wyatt's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 17 and Nov 1 and the ~198-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 595 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wyatt, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wyatt's boundary and the 642 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~198-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Wyatt's own centroid, the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Wyattlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wyatt's 642 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom St. Joseph County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom St. Joseph 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 St. Joseph County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wyatt's 642 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wyatt you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 642 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 Wyatt-wide figureread your own land →