Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Lawrenceburg, 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 Lawrenceburg 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 Lawrenceburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lawrenceburg — the short answer
Lawrenceburg, Kentucky: USDA zone 6b, about 216 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~216
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 4K 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 Lawrenceburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lawrenceburg's 216-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lawrenceburg
Each reading below is measured for Lawrenceburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLawrenceburg runs about 216 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
MeasuredLawrenceburg 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 Lawrenceburg is in
Lawrenceburg sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lawrenceburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Anderson County.
What Grows in Lawrenceburg
Every plant below cleared Lawrenceburg's own zone 6b and its 216-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lawrenceburg?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Lawrenceburg
Survey cells within 31 miles of Lawrenceburg checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 49 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lawrenceburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lawrenceburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Drury GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- WAL-MART SUPERCENTER #507Brownfields · 2200 ft
- Former Anderson Co Health DepartmentUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Robinson Gorham Oil Co IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Anderson Super BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Chevron Station (Closed)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Prime Star #6Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Lawrenceburg Police DeptUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Kevins Auto SalesUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Anderson Co Bus GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Five Star #5546Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Rjw Enterprises IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lawrenceburg'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 Lawrenceburg.
Total Sites
217
within ~10 miles of Lawrenceburg
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lawrenceburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lawrenceburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lawrenceburg, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lawrenceburg — PFAS (4 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (16 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Lawrenceburg
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 Lawrenceburg
Everything above resolves to Lawrenceburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 city 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 Lawrenceburg Average
Lawrenceburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lawrenceburg
- ●One soil character for all of Lawrenceburg
- ●Frost dates read at Lawrenceburg's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lawrenceburg's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lawrenceburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lawrenceburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lawrenceburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lawrenceburg average
How we know this about Lawrenceburg
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Lawrenceburg’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Lawrenceburg
When does frost risk typically end in Lawrenceburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lawrenceburg typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Lawrenceburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lawrenceburg typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 216 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lawrenceburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lawrenceburg sees about 216 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 22, about 181 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lawrenceburg?
The federal record around Lawrenceburg is a meaningful one — 217 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (156), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Lawrenceburg?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lawrenceburg's scale — its 6b band and its 216-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lawrenceburg'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 Lawrenceburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lawrenceburg's own scale — its own ~216-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,854 acres it covers and 217 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lawrenceburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lawrenceburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 5 and the ~216-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 217 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lawrenceburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lawrenceburg's boundary and the 3,854 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~216-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lawrenceburg's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Lawrenceburg 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 Lawrenceburg's 3,854 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Anderson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Anderson County
- The growing challenges every Kentucky grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kentucky
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Anderson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lawrenceburg's 3,854 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lawrenceburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,854 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Lawrenceburg-wide figureread your own land →
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