Eastwood, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — 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 Eastwood, 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 Eastwood 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 Eastwood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Eastwood — the short answer
Eastwood, Michigan: USDA zone 6a, about 191 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~191
- 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 Eastwood's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eastwood's 191-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eastwood
Each reading below is measured for Eastwood itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEastwood runs about 191 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
MeasuredEastwood 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 Eastwood is in
Eastwood sits in the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eastwood's own centroid rather than borrowed from Kalamazoo County.
What Grows in Eastwood
Every plant below cleared Eastwood's own zone 6a and its 191-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eastwood?
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 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Eastwood
Spotted lanternfly documented 23 miles from Eastwood, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Eastwood
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eastwood. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Eastwood Fire StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- EAST MAIN CLEANERSBrownfields · 2100 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #8484Brownfields · 2100 ft
- Senior Oil #6Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Consumers Concrete CorpUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- TOP GRADE AGGREGATES, LLCBrownfields · 2600 ft
- LOWDER'S AUTOMOTIVE INCBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- Leslie R. LowderUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Jakes ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CLARK OIL COBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- Clark #1473Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BORGESS INTERNAL MEDICINEBrownfields · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eastwood'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 Eastwood.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eastwood
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eastwood
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Eastwood
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 Eastwood average
Your land is one point inside Eastwood
Everything above resolves to Eastwood 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 Eastwood Average
Eastwood Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Eastwood
- ●One soil character for all of Eastwood
- ●Frost dates read at Eastwood's scale: Apr 19 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eastwood's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eastwood
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eastwood, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eastwood averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eastwood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eastwood average
How we know this about Eastwood
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 Eastwood’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 Eastwood
When does frost risk typically end in Eastwood?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eastwood typically lands around Apr 19, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Eastwood?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eastwood typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 191 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eastwood?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eastwood sees about 191 frost-free days — roughly Apr 19 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 10 to Oct 13, about 156 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eastwood?
The federal record around Eastwood runs heavier than most — 1,349 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (599), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Eastwood?
From about Sep 27 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eastwood's scale — its 6a band and its 191-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eastwood'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 Eastwood’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Eastwood's own scale — its own ~191-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,266 acres it covers and 1,349 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eastwood's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Eastwood's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 19 and Oct 27 and the ~191-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,349 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eastwood, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eastwood's boundary and the 1,266 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~191-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Eastwood's own centroid, the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Eastwoodlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eastwood's 1,266 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Kalamazoo County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Kalamazoo 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 Kalamazoo County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eastwood's 1,266 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eastwood you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,266 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Eastwood-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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