Odin, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Odin, 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 Odin lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Odin — the short answer
Odin, Kansas: USDA zone 6b, about 205 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~205
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Odin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Odin's 205-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Odin
Each reading below is measured for Odin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredOdin runs about 205 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
MeasuredOdin 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 Odin is in
Odin sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Odin's own centroid rather than borrowed from Barton County.
What Grows in Odin
Every plant below cleared Odin's own zone 6b and its 205-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Odin?
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 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Odin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Odin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ODIN STORE - (ODIN KANSAS)Underground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- 17S 12W 02CBC 01Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- 17S 12W 27CCB 01Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- BOBS SVC CTRBrownfields · 3.8 mi
- 17S 11W 31DC 01Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- HITSCHMANN BRANCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- HOISINGTON R REPEATER STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- 18S 12W 12BCC 01Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- USD 354 CLAFLIN SCHOOLBrownfields · 5.1 mi
- 17S 12W 31DCC 02Nitrate · 5.3 mi
- 17S 12W 31DCC 01Nitrate · 5.3 mi
- E & R SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Odin'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 Odin.
Total Sites
94
within ~10 miles of Odin
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Odin
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Odin
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Odin, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 48 sites within ~10 miles of Odin. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Odin
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 Odin
Everything above resolves to Odin as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Odin Average
Odin Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Odin
- ●One soil character for all of Odin
- ●Frost dates read at Odin's scale: Apr 5 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Odin's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Odin
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Odin, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Odin averages can't show:
We read public map data around Odin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Odin average
How we know this about Odin
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 Odin’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 Odin
When does frost risk typically end in Odin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Odin typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Odin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Odin typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 205 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Odin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Odin sees about 205 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 13, about 170 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Odin?
The federal record around Odin is a meaningful one — 94 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (48), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Odin?
From about Sep 27 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Odin's scale — its 6b band and its 205-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Odin'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 Odin’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Odin's own scale — its own ~205-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,559 acres it covers and 94 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Odin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Odin's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Oct 27 and the ~205-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 94 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Odin, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Odin's boundary and the 2,559 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~205-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Odin's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Odin's 2,559 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Barton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Barton County
- The growing challenges every Kansas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kansas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Barton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Odin's 2,559 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Odin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,559 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Odin-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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