Blissfield, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Blissfield, 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 Blissfield lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Blissfield — the short answer
Blissfield, Michigan: USDA zone 6a, about 195 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~195
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 6a is Blissfield's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Blissfield's 195-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Blissfield
Each reading below is measured for Blissfield itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBlissfield runs about 195 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBlissfield sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Blissfield is in
Blissfield sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Blissfield's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Lenawee County is mostly Eastern Corn Belt Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Blissfield
Every plant below cleared Blissfield's own zone 6a and its 195-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Blissfield?
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 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Blissfield
Spotted lanternfly documented 14 miles from Blissfield, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Blissfield
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Blissfield. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Schneiders Frame & Axle IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- Raymond Kohler EstateUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- LIPPENS CLEANERS AND TAILORSBrownfields · 550 ft
- NORTON EQUIPMENT CORPORATIONBrownfields · 650 ft
- Forches ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- SCOTT CANTRELL'S GARAGEBrownfields · 650 ft
- Nichols Repair CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- Glidden Builders IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- Dpw YardUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- Mdot Row Former Vanstaven Oil CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- NORTHWEST FUEL INJECTION SERVICE OF MICHIGAN INCBrownfields · 1800 ft
- RIVERBEND INVESTMENTS LLCBrownfields · 1800 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Blissfield'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 Blissfield.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Blissfield
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Blissfield
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Blissfield, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Blissfield — PFAS (5 sites) and Superfund (6 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.
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 Blissfield
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 Blissfield average
Your land is one point inside Blissfield
Everything above resolves to Blissfield as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Blissfield Average
Blissfield Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Blissfield
- ●One soil character for all of Blissfield
- ●Frost dates read at Blissfield's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Blissfield's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Blissfield
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Blissfield, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Blissfield averages can't show:
We read public map data around Blissfield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Blissfield average
How we know this about Blissfield
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 Blissfield’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 Blissfield
When does frost risk typically end in Blissfield?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Blissfield typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Blissfield?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Blissfield typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 195 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Blissfield?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Blissfield sees about 195 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 14, about 160 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Blissfield?
The federal record around Blissfield is a meaningful one — 277 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (126), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Blissfield?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Blissfield's scale — its 6a band and its 195-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Blissfield'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 Blissfield’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Blissfield's own scale — its own ~195-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,441 acres it covers and 277 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Blissfield's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Blissfield's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 28 and the ~195-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 277 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Blissfield, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Blissfield's boundary and the 1,441 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~195-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Blissfield 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 Blissfieldlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Blissfield's 1,441 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lenawee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lenawee 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 Lenawee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Blissfield's 1,441 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Blissfield you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,441 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Blissfield-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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