Maybee, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Maybee, 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 Maybee 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 Maybee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Maybee — the short answer
Maybee, Michigan: USDA zone 6a, about 200 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- 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
- ~200
- 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 Maybee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Maybee's 200-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Maybee
Each reading below is measured for Maybee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMaybee runs about 200 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
MeasuredMaybee 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 Maybee is in
Maybee sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Maybee's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monroe County.
What Grows in Maybee
Every plant below cleared Maybee's own zone 6a and its 200-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Maybee?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 14 (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. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Maybee
Spotted lanternfly documented 21 miles from Maybee, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Maybee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Maybee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Maybee DepotUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- 05S08E32AA 01 M STONENitrate · 1100 ft
- First Of America BankUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Sods Fleetwing ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Rasin River Petroleum IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Barkers Trading Post & AuctionUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Country Resale ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- 05S 08E 31DAAC01 MONROENitrate · 0.6 mi
- 05S08E29BCC 01 BURGMANNitrate · 1.0 mi
- Stoneco - Maybee PlantUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- 05S 08E 29 ADA01 MONROE CO (WELL G-6)Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- STONECO INCBrownfields · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Maybee'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 Maybee.
Total Sites
583
within ~10 miles of Maybee
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
8 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Maybee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Maybee
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Maybee, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 8 sites within ~10 miles of Maybee. 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 Maybee
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 Maybee
Everything above resolves to Maybee 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 Maybee Average
Maybee Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Maybee
- ●One soil character for all of Maybee
- ●Frost dates read at Maybee's scale: Apr 14 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Maybee's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Maybee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Maybee, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Maybee averages can't show:
We read public map data around Maybee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Maybee average
How we know this about Maybee
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 Maybee’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 Maybee
When does frost risk typically end in Maybee?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Maybee typically lands around Apr 14, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Maybee?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Maybee 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 200 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Maybee?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Maybee sees about 200 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 17, about 165 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Maybee?
The federal record around Maybee is a meaningful one — 583 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (232), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Maybee?
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 Maybee's scale — its 6a band and its 200-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Maybee'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 Maybee’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Maybee's own scale — its own ~200-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,180 acres it covers and 583 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Maybee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Maybee's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Oct 31 and the ~200-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 583 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Maybee, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Maybee's boundary and the 1,180 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~200-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Maybee's own centroid, the Huron/Erie Lake PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Maybeelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Maybee's 1,180 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Monroe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Monroe 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 Monroe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Maybee's 1,180 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Maybee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,180 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Maybee-wide figureread your own land →
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