Baroda, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Baroda, 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 Baroda 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 Baroda — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Baroda — the short answer
Baroda, Michigan: USDA zone 6b, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 459 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 15
- 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
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 459 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 Baroda's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Baroda's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Baroda
Each reading below is measured for Baroda itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBaroda runs about 208 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
MeasuredBaroda 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 Baroda is in
Baroda sits in the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Baroda's own centroid rather than borrowed from Berrien County.
What Grows in Baroda
Every plant below cleared Baroda's own zone 6b and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Baroda?
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 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 15 (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. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Baroda
Spotted lanternfly documented 26 miles from Baroda, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Baroda
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Baroda. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WOLVERINE COATINGS MACHINESBrownfields · 650 ft
- Baroda TwpUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- Village Of BarodaUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- QUALITY MOLD AND ENGINEERINGBrownfields · 700 ft
- BARODA BODY SHOPBrownfields · 800 ft
- G Larry NyeUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- TOUCH OF CLASS AUTOBODYBrownfields · 1000 ft
- MIDWEST DIE CORPBrownfields · 1200 ft
- COLONIAL DIE CORPBrownfields · 1200 ft
- Alltel Michigan IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- John's ProUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Baroda Key StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Baroda'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 Baroda.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Baroda
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Baroda
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Baroda, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Baroda — PFAS (4 sites) and Superfund (6 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Baroda
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 Baroda average
Your land is one point inside Baroda
Everything above resolves to Baroda as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 459 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 Baroda Average
Baroda Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Baroda
- ●One soil character for all of Baroda
- ●Frost dates read at Baroda's scale: Apr 15 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Baroda's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Baroda
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Baroda, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Baroda averages can't show:
We read public map data around Baroda — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Baroda average
How we know this about Baroda
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 Baroda’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 Baroda
When does frost risk typically end in Baroda?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Baroda typically lands around Apr 15, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Baroda?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Baroda 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 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Baroda?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Baroda sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 15 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 6 to Oct 26, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Baroda?
The federal record around Baroda is a meaningful one — 483 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (264), the nearest Brownfields 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 Baroda?
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 Baroda's scale — its 6b band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Baroda'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 Baroda’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Baroda's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 459 acres it covers and 483 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Baroda's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Baroda's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 15 and Nov 9 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 483 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Baroda, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Baroda's boundary and the 459 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Baroda's own centroid, the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Barodalydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Baroda's 459 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Berrien County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Berrien County
- The growing challenges every Michigan grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Michigan
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Berrien County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Baroda's 459 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Baroda you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 459 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Baroda-wide figureread your own land →