Haring, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Haring, 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 Haring lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Haring — the short answer
Haring, Michigan: USDA zone 5a, about 150 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~150
- 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 5a is Haring's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Haring's 150-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Haring
Each reading below is measured for Haring itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHaring runs about 150 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
MeasuredHaring sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
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 Haring is in
Haring sits in the Northern Lakes and Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Haring's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wexford County.
What Grows in Haring
Every plant below cleared Haring's own zone 5a and its 150-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Haring?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 8 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Haring
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Haring. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WALMART SUPERCENTER 1432Brownfields · 200 ft
- CYS BODY SHOPBrownfields · 250 ft
- TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY #632Brownfields · 1000 ft
- Murphy USA #7179Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- MEIJER INCBrownfields · 1500 ft
- Kelley Distributing CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- HOME DEPOT USA INCBrownfields · 1800 ft
- Crystal FlashUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Speedway #3570Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- PENSKE TRUCK LEASING CO LPBrownfields · 2000 ft
- WAL MART STORES EAST LPBrownfields · 2100 ft
- CRYSTAL FLASH LTD PRTNRSHP OF MICHIGANBrownfields · 2400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Haring'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 Haring.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Haring
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Haring
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Haring, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 5 sites within ~10 miles of Haring. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Haring
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Haring
Everything above resolves to Haring 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 Haring Average
Haring Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Haring
- ●One soil character for all of Haring
- ●Frost dates read at Haring's scale: May 11 to Oct 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Haring's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Haring
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Haring, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Haring — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Haring average
How we know this about Haring
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 Haring’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 Haring
When does frost risk typically end in Haring?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Haring typically lands around May 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 Jun 1.
When is the first frost in Haring?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Haring typically arrives around Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 24, so the watching starts about Sep 8 — about 150 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Haring?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Haring sees about 150 frost-free days — roughly May 11 through Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 1 to Sep 24, about 115 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Haring?
The federal record around Haring is a meaningful one — 299 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (161), the nearest Brownfields 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 Haring?
From about Sep 8 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Haring's scale — its 5a band and its 150-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Haring'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 Haring’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Haring's own scale — its own ~150-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,480 acres it covers and 299 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Haring's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Haring's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 11 and Oct 8 and the ~150-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 299 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Haring, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Haring's boundary and the 1,480 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~150-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Haring's own centroid, the Northern Lakes and ForestsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Haring's 1,480 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wexford County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wexford 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 Wexford County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Haring's 1,480 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Haring you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,480 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Haring-wide figureread your own land →
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