Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Bloomfield Hills, 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 Bloomfield Hills lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bloomfield Hills — the short answer
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: USDA zone 6a, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- 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
- City 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 6a is Bloomfield Hills's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bloomfield Hills's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bloomfield Hills
Each reading below is measured for Bloomfield Hills itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBloomfield Hills 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
MeasuredBloomfield Hills 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 Bloomfield Hills is in
Bloomfield Hills sits in the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bloomfield Hills's own centroid rather than borrowed from Oakland County.
What Grows in Bloomfield Hills
Every plant below cleared Bloomfield Hills's own zone 6a and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bloomfield Hills?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Bloomfield Hills
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Bloomfield Hills, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bloomfield Hills
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bloomfield Hills. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Father & Son Food MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- DOUGLAS CLEANERS IIIBrownfields · 850 ft
- LITTLE DADDYS INCBrownfields · 1000 ft
- Safiedine Long Lake LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- 21 E LONG LAKE OFFICE BUILDING LLCBrownfields · 1100 ft
- MOBIL OIL CORPBrownfields · 1100 ft
- Bloomfield Hills - Public SafetyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- JFK INVESTMENT COMPANY LLCBrownfields · 1500 ft
- St. Elizabeth Briarbank Home ForUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CRANBROOK INSTITUTE ART BLDGBrownfields · 2300 ft
- Stonycroft Hills ClubUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- The Natalie Mauck TrustUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bloomfield Hills'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 Bloomfield Hills.
Total Sites
3,821
within ~10 miles of Bloomfield Hills
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
10 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bloomfield Hills
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bloomfield Hills
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bloomfield Hills, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 2,015 sites within ~10 miles of Bloomfield Hills. 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 Bloomfield Hills
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 Bloomfield Hills average
Your land is one point inside Bloomfield Hills
Everything above resolves to Bloomfield Hills 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 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 Bloomfield Hills Average
Bloomfield Hills Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Bloomfield Hills
- ●One soil character for all of Bloomfield Hills
- ●Frost dates read at Bloomfield Hills's scale: Apr 11 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bloomfield Hills's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bloomfield Hills
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bloomfield Hills averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bloomfield Hills — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bloomfield Hills average
How we know this about Bloomfield Hills
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 Bloomfield Hills’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 Bloomfield Hills
When does frost risk typically end in Bloomfield Hills?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bloomfield Hills 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 Bloomfield Hills?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bloomfield Hills 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 Bloomfield Hills?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bloomfield Hills 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 Bloomfield Hills?
The federal record around Bloomfield Hills is a meaningful one — 3,821 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (2,015), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Bloomfield Hills?
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 Bloomfield Hills's scale — its 6a band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bloomfield Hills'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 Bloomfield Hills’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bloomfield Hills's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,174 acres it covers and 3,821 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bloomfield Hills's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bloomfield Hills's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Nov 6 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 3,821 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bloomfield Hills, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bloomfield Hills's boundary and the 3,174 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bloomfield Hills's own centroid, the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Bloomfield Hillslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bloomfield Hills's 3,174 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 Bloomfield Hills's 3,174 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bloomfield Hills you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,174 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Bloomfield Hills-wide figureread your own land →