Lathrup Village, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lathrup Village, 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 Lathrup Village 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 Lathrup Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lathrup Village — the short answer
Lathrup Village, Michigan: USDA zone 6b, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 964 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 964 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 Lathrup Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lathrup Village's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lathrup Village
Each reading below is measured for Lathrup Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLathrup Village runs about 213 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
MeasuredLathrup Village 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 Lathrup Village is in
Lathrup Village sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lathrup Village'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 Lathrup Village
Every plant below cleared Lathrup Village's own zone 6b and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lathrup Village?
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 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Lathrup Village
Spotted lanternfly documented 9 miles from Lathrup Village, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lathrup Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lathrup Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HALLE PROPERTIES LLCBrownfields · 2100 ft
- LATHRUP VILLAGEPFAS · 2200 ft
- SOUTHFIELDPFAS · 2200 ft
- KH BUSINESS INCBrownfields · 2300 ft
- Lathrup SunocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Department Of Public ServicesUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- SPEEDWAY LLCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- B Murad Equities LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- AUTOZONE STORES INCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- Southfield Shell IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- HOUSE OF WATCHBANDSBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- GIN CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lathrup Village'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 Lathrup Village.
Total Sites
5,059
within ~10 miles of Lathrup Village
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
55 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lathrup Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lathrup Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lathrup Village, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 2,515 sites within ~10 miles of Lathrup Village. 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 Lathrup Village
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 Lathrup Village average
Your land is one point inside Lathrup Village
Everything above resolves to Lathrup Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 964 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 Lathrup Village Average
Lathrup Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lathrup Village
- ●One soil character for all of Lathrup Village
- ●Frost dates read at Lathrup Village's scale: Apr 9 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lathrup Village's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lathrup Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lathrup Village, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lathrup Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lathrup Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lathrup Village average
How we know this about Lathrup Village
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 Lathrup Village’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 Lathrup Village
When does frost risk typically end in Lathrup Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lathrup Village typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Lathrup Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lathrup Village typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lathrup Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lathrup Village sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 25, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lathrup Village?
The federal record around Lathrup Village is a meaningful one — 5,059 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (2,515), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.4 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 Lathrup Village?
From about Oct 9 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 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 Nov 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lathrup Village's scale — its 6b band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lathrup Village'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 Lathrup Village’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lathrup Village's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 964 acres it covers and 5,059 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lathrup Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lathrup Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Nov 8 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 5,059 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lathrup Village, the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lathrup Village's boundary and the 964 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lathrup Village 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 Lathrup Villagelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lathrup Village's 964 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 Lathrup Village's 964 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lathrup Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 964 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 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 Lathrup Village-wide figureread your own land →