Roosevelt Park, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Roosevelt Park, 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 Roosevelt Park 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 Roosevelt Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Roosevelt Park — the short answer
Roosevelt Park, Michigan: USDA zone 6b, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 657 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- 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
- ~209
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 657 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 Roosevelt Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Roosevelt Park's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Roosevelt Park
Each reading below is measured for Roosevelt Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRoosevelt Park runs about 209 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
MeasuredRoosevelt Park 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 Roosevelt Park is in
Roosevelt Park sits in the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Roosevelt Park's own centroid rather than borrowed from Muskegon County.
What Grows in Roosevelt Park
Every plant below cleared Roosevelt Park's own zone 6b and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Roosevelt Park?
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 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 Nov 9 — 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 Roosevelt Park
Survey cells within 31 miles of Roosevelt Park checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 90 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Roosevelt Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Roosevelt Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TECH LINE PRODUCTSToxics Release Inventory · 2100 ft
- TECH LINE PRODUCTSBrownfields · 2100 ft
- City Of Roosevelt ParkUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- BUCKEYE TERMINALS LLC MUSKEGONBrownfields · 2300 ft
- VANS CAR WASH INCBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- Van's Car Wash IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Summit & Henry MobilUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Muskegon ClarkUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Cwc Castings Div. Of Textron IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- TEXTRON CWC DIVISIONBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- TEXTRON CWC DIVISIONToxics Release Inventory · 0.5 mi
- MUSKEGON COMPOSITES (DBA GMI COMPOSITES, INC.)Toxics Release Inventory · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Roosevelt Park'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 Roosevelt Park.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Roosevelt Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Roosevelt Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Roosevelt Park, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Roosevelt Park — Superfund (17 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (84 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Roosevelt Park
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 Roosevelt Park
Everything above resolves to Roosevelt Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 657 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 Roosevelt Park Average
Roosevelt Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Roosevelt Park
- ●One soil character for all of Roosevelt Park
- ●Frost dates read at Roosevelt Park's scale: Apr 14 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Roosevelt Park's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Roosevelt Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Roosevelt Park, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Roosevelt Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Roosevelt Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Roosevelt Park average
How we know this about Roosevelt Park
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 Roosevelt Park’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 Roosevelt Park
When does frost risk typically end in Roosevelt Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Roosevelt Park 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 Roosevelt Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Roosevelt Park 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 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Roosevelt Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Roosevelt Park sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 26, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Roosevelt Park?
The federal record around Roosevelt Park runs heavier than most — 1,019 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (509), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.4 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Roosevelt Park?
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 Roosevelt Park's scale — its 6b band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Roosevelt Park'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 Roosevelt Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Roosevelt Park's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 657 acres it covers and 1,019 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Roosevelt Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Roosevelt Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Nov 9 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,019 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Roosevelt Park, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Roosevelt Park's boundary and the 657 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Roosevelt Park's own centroid, the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Roosevelt Park 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 Roosevelt Park's 657 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Muskegon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Muskegon 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 Muskegon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Roosevelt Park's 657 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Roosevelt Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 657 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory 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 Roosevelt Park-wide figureread your own land →