Bingham Farms, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bingham Farms, 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 Bingham Farms 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 Bingham Farms — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Bingham Farms — the short answer
Bingham Farms, Michigan: USDA zone 6b, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 772 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~209
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 772 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 Bingham Farms's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bingham Farms's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bingham Farms
Each reading below is measured for Bingham Farms itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBingham Farms runs about 209 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
MeasuredBingham Farms 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 Bingham Farms is in
Bingham Farms sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bingham Farms's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Oakland County is mostly Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Bingham Farms
Every plant below cleared Bingham Farms's own zone 6b and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bingham Farms?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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 Bingham Farms
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Bingham Farms, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bingham Farms
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bingham Farms. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLSBrownfields · 1000 ft
- QUEST RESEARCH INSTITUTEBrownfields · 2200 ft
- DIVISION OF MICHIGAN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALSBrownfields · 2300 ft
- D M C PRIMARY CARE SERVICES IIBrownfields · 2300 ft
- NEWLAND MEDICAL ASSOCIATES PCBrownfields · 2300 ft
- WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PHYSICIAN GROUPBrownfields · 2300 ft
- WM BEAUMONT HOSPITALBrownfields · 2400 ft
- BEVERLY HILLS PEDIATRICSBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- Detroit Country Day SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BEVERLY HILLSPFAS · 0.7 mi
- DIRECT PATH SERVICES LLCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- 30200 TELEGRAPH ROAD OFFICE BUILDINGBrownfields · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bingham Farms'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 Bingham Farms.
Total Sites
4,519
within ~10 miles of Bingham Farms
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
19 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bingham Farms
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bingham Farms
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bingham Farms, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 2,359 sites within ~10 miles of Bingham Farms. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Bingham Farms
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 Bingham Farms average
Your land is one point inside Bingham Farms
Everything above resolves to Bingham Farms as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 772 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 Bingham Farms Average
Bingham Farms Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Bingham Farms
- ●One soil character for all of Bingham Farms
- ●Frost dates read at Bingham Farms's scale: Apr 11 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bingham Farms's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Bingham Farms
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bingham Farms, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bingham Farms averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bingham Farms — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bingham Farms average
How we know this about Bingham Farms
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 Bingham Farms’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 Bingham Farms
When does frost risk typically end in Bingham Farms?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bingham Farms typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Bingham Farms?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bingham Farms typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bingham Farms?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bingham Farms sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 23, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bingham Farms?
The federal record around Bingham Farms is a meaningful one — 4,519 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (2,359), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Bingham Farms?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bingham Farms's scale — its 6b band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bingham Farms'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 Bingham Farms’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bingham Farms's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 772 acres it covers and 4,519 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bingham Farms's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bingham Farms's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Nov 6 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 4,519 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bingham Farms, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bingham Farms's boundary and the 772 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Bingham Farms sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Bingham Farmslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bingham Farms's 772 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Oakland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Oakland 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 Oakland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bingham Farms's 772 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bingham Farms you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 772 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Bingham Farms-wide figureread your own land →