Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Rabbit Hash, 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 Rabbit Hash lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Rabbit Hash — the short answer
Rabbit Hash, Kentucky: USDA zone 6b, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 3K 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 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- 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 Rabbit Hash's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rabbit Hash's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rabbit Hash
Each reading below is measured for Rabbit Hash itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRabbit Hash runs about 221 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
MeasuredRabbit Hash 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 Rabbit Hash is in
Rabbit Hash sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Rabbit Hash's own centroid rather than borrowed from Boone County.
What Grows in Rabbit Hash
Every plant below cleared Rabbit Hash's own zone 6b and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rabbit Hash?
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 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 9 — 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 Rabbit Hash
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Rabbit Hash, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Rabbit Hash
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rabbit Hash. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Rabbit Hash Iron WorksUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Rising Sun Municipal UtilitiesUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- RISING SUN SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- RISING SUN GRAND VICTORIA RIVER BOAT CASINOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- GARYS GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- TONYS AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- MONDARY TIRE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- RISING SUN OHIO COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- MAINTENANCE GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Duke Energy KY East BendUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- DUKE ENERGY KY EAST BENDToxics Release Inventory · 1.7 mi
- RISING SUN SHELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Rabbit Hash'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 Rabbit Hash.
Total Sites
119
within ~10 miles of Rabbit Hash
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
9 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Rabbit Hash
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rabbit Hash
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Rabbit Hash, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Rabbit Hash — Toxics Release Inventory (9 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (88 sites). 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.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rabbit Hash average
Your land is one point inside Rabbit Hash
Everything above resolves to Rabbit Hash 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 Rabbit Hash Average
Rabbit Hash Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Rabbit Hash
- ●One soil character for all of Rabbit Hash
- ●Frost dates read at Rabbit Hash's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rabbit Hash's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Rabbit Hash
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Rabbit Hash, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Rabbit Hash averages can't show:
We read public map data around Rabbit Hash — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rabbit Hash average
How we know this about Rabbit Hash
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 Rabbit Hash’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 Rabbit Hash
When does frost risk typically end in Rabbit Hash?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rabbit Hash 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 Rabbit Hash?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rabbit Hash typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rabbit Hash?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rabbit Hash sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 26, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rabbit Hash?
The federal record around Rabbit Hash shows 119 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (88), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Rabbit Hash?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Rabbit Hash's scale — its 6b band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rabbit Hash'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 Rabbit Hash’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Rabbit Hash's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,265 acres it covers and 119 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rabbit Hash's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Rabbit Hash's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 9 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 119 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rabbit Hash, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rabbit Hash's boundary and the 3,265 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Rabbit Hash's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Rabbit Hashlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Rabbit Hash's 3,265 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Boone County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Boone 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 Boone County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rabbit Hash's 3,265 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rabbit Hash you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,265 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Rabbit Hash-wide figureread your own land →
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