Kinde, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Kinde, 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 Kinde lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kinde — the short answer
Kinde, Michigan: USDA zone 6a, about 188 days between hard freezes, across 753 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~188
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 753 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 Kinde's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kinde's 188-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kinde
Each reading below is measured for Kinde itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKinde runs about 188 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
MeasuredKinde 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 Kinde is in
Kinde sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kinde's own centroid rather than borrowed from Huron County.
What Grows in Kinde
Every plant below cleared Kinde's own zone 6a and its 188-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kinde?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Kinde
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kinde. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Yaroch Oil & GasUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- D & N CollisionUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- Farmers Gas StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Village Of KindeUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Agri Sales, IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- North Huron SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Halls Sunoco ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- W T & C LtdUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Kinde One StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Kinde GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Brade Ready Mix Concrete IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- S & L ConvenienceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kinde'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 Kinde.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kinde
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kinde
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Kinde
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 Kinde
Everything above resolves to Kinde as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 753 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 Kinde Average
Kinde Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Kinde
- ●One soil character for all of Kinde
- ●Frost dates read at Kinde's scale: Apr 26 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kinde's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kinde
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kinde, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Kinde — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kinde average
How we know this about Kinde
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 Kinde’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 Kinde
When does frost risk typically end in Kinde?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kinde typically lands around Apr 26, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Kinde?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kinde typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 188 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kinde?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kinde sees about 188 frost-free days — roughly Apr 26 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 17 to Oct 17, about 153 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kinde?
The federal record around Kinde shows 156 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (83), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Kinde?
From about Oct 1 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 31 (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 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kinde's scale — its 6a band and its 188-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kinde'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 Kinde’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Kinde's own scale — its own ~188-day season between 28°F freezes, the 753 acres it covers and 156 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kinde's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kinde's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 26 and Oct 31 and the ~188-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 156 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kinde, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kinde's boundary and the 753 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~188-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kinde's own centroid, the Huron/Erie Lake PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kinde's 753 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Huron County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Huron 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 Huron County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kinde's 753 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kinde you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 753 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 Kinde-wide figureread your own land →
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