Mayville, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Mayville, 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 Mayville 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 Mayville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Mayville — the short answer
Mayville, Michigan: USDA zone 6a, about 180 days between hard freezes, across 689 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 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~180
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 689 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 Mayville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mayville's 180-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mayville
Each reading below is measured for Mayville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMayville runs about 180 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
MeasuredMayville 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 Mayville is in
Mayville sits in the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mayville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Tuscola County is mostly Huron/Erie Lake Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Mayville
Every plant below cleared Mayville's own zone 6a and its 180-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mayville?
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 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 23 — 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.
Documented around Mayville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Mayville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 50 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Mayville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mayville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Mayville Fire HallUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- William WernerUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- Peoples Gas & OilUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- Guy's Auto RepairUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- Naugle's ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- 5980 Fulton Street MayvilleUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- Old Texaco Gas StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- Mayville Community SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Moorman Mfg Co/mayville WarehousUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Former Mayville MoldingUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Mr Chips Food StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Frank LucikUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mayville'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 Mayville.
Total Sites
89
within ~10 miles of Mayville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mayville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mayville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mayville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 58 sites within ~10 miles of Mayville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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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 Mayville
Everything above resolves to Mayville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 689 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 Mayville Average
Mayville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Mayville
- ●One soil character for all of Mayville
- ●Frost dates read at Mayville's scale: Apr 26 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mayville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mayville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mayville, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Mayville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Mayville
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 Mayville’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 Mayville
When does frost risk typically end in Mayville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mayville 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 Mayville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mayville typically arrives around Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 9, so the watching starts about Sep 23 — about 180 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mayville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mayville sees about 180 frost-free days — roughly Apr 26 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 17 to Oct 9, about 145 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mayville?
The federal record around Mayville is a meaningful one — 89 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (58), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Mayville?
From about Sep 23 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mayville's scale — its 6a band and its 180-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mayville'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 Mayville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Mayville's own scale — its own ~180-day season between 28°F freezes, the 689 acres it covers and 89 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mayville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mayville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 26 and Oct 23 and the ~180-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 89 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mayville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mayville's boundary and the 689 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~180-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Mayville sits in the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Mayville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mayville's 689 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tuscola County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tuscola 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 Tuscola County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mayville's 689 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mayville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 689 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 Mayville-wide figureread your own land →
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