Huntington Woods, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Huntington Woods, 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 Huntington Woods lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Huntington Woods — the short answer
Huntington Woods, Michigan: USDA zone 6b, about 216 days between hard freezes, across 953 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~216
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 953 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 Huntington Woods's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Huntington Woods's 216-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Huntington Woods
Each reading below is measured for Huntington Woods itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHuntington Woods runs about 216 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
MeasuredHuntington Woods 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 Huntington Woods is in
Huntington Woods sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Huntington Woods'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 Huntington Woods
Every plant below cleared Huntington Woods's own zone 6b and its 216-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Huntington Woods?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Huntington Woods
Spotted lanternfly documented 11 miles from Huntington Woods, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Huntington Woods
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Huntington Woods. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HUNTINGTON WOODSPFAS · 0 ft
- CHASE CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- Rackham Golf CourseUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- CITY OF DETROIT RACKAM GOLFBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- Department Of Public WorksUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CITY OF HUNTINGTON WOODSBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- Anthony & Suzanne ReaUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- FLAGG CLEANING SYSTEMSBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- PALM FAMILY DENTAL DDS PCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- Jax Mini MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 11 & Henley Auto ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- K & K Auto ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Huntington Woods'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 Huntington Woods.
Total Sites
5,964
within ~10 miles of Huntington Woods
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
91 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Huntington Woods
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Huntington Woods
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Huntington Woods, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 91 sites within ~10 miles of Huntington Woods. 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 Huntington Woods
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 Huntington Woods average
Your land is one point inside Huntington Woods
Everything above resolves to Huntington Woods as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 953 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 Huntington Woods Average
Huntington Woods Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Huntington Woods
- ●One soil character for all of Huntington Woods
- ●Frost dates read at Huntington Woods's scale: Apr 7 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Huntington Woods's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Huntington Woods
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Huntington Woods, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Huntington Woods averages can't show:
We read public map data around Huntington Woods — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Huntington Woods average
How we know this about Huntington Woods
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 Huntington Woods’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 Huntington Woods
When does frost risk typically end in Huntington Woods?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Huntington Woods typically lands around Apr 7, 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 Apr 28.
When is the first frost in Huntington Woods?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Huntington Woods typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 216 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Huntington Woods?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Huntington Woods sees about 216 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 26, about 181 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Huntington Woods?
The federal record around Huntington Woods is a meaningful one — 5,964 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (2,866), the nearest PFAS 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 Huntington Woods?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Huntington Woods's scale — its 6b band and its 216-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Huntington Woods'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 Huntington Woods’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Huntington Woods's own scale — its own ~216-day season between 28°F freezes, the 953 acres it covers and 5,964 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Huntington Woods's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Huntington Woods's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Nov 9 and the ~216-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 5,964 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Huntington Woods, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Huntington Woods's boundary and the 953 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~216-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Huntington Woods 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 Huntington Woodslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Huntington Woods's 953 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 Huntington Woods's 953 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Huntington Woods you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 953 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS 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 Huntington Woods-wide figureread your own land →
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