Woodland Beach, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Woodland Beach, 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 Woodland Beach 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 Woodland Beach — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Woodland Beach — the short answer
Woodland Beach, Michigan: USDA zone 6b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 333 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- 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
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 333 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 Woodland Beach's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodland Beach's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodland Beach
Each reading below is measured for Woodland Beach itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodland Beach runs about 217 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
MeasuredWoodland Beach 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 Woodland Beach is in
Woodland Beach sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodland Beach's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monroe County.
What Grows in Woodland Beach
Every plant below cleared Woodland Beach's own zone 6b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodland Beach?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (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 Woodland Beach
Spotted lanternfly documented 19 miles from Woodland Beach, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodland Beach
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodland Beach. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ABC Cleaners SiteUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR STORESBrownfields · 1800 ft
- Kroger Fuel Center #579Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Frenchtown Twp, Fire Dept St2Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Jim Spas Auto ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Brest Bay Marina IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Dixie Food Mart IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- 06S 09E 23DDBB01 MONROE CO (WELL G-16)Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- Jefferson Schools PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Vores Auto ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Sphinx Development LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Detroit Beach Boat ClubUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodland Beach'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 Woodland Beach.
Total Sites
495
within ~10 miles of Woodland Beach
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
7 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodland Beach
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodland Beach
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodland Beach, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 7 sites within ~10 miles of Woodland Beach. 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 Woodland Beach
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25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodland Beach average
Your land is one point inside Woodland Beach
Everything above resolves to Woodland Beach as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 333 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 Woodland Beach Average
Woodland Beach Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Woodland Beach
- ●One soil character for all of Woodland Beach
- ●Frost dates read at Woodland Beach's scale: Apr 6 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodland Beach's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodland Beach
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We read public map data around Woodland Beach — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodland Beach average
How we know this about Woodland Beach
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 Woodland Beach’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 Woodland Beach
When does frost risk typically end in Woodland Beach?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodland Beach typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Woodland Beach?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodland Beach 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 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodland Beach?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodland Beach sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 26, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodland Beach?
The federal record around Woodland Beach is a meaningful one — 495 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (219), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Woodland Beach?
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 Woodland Beach's scale — its 6b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodland Beach'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 Woodland Beach’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Woodland Beach's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 333 acres it covers and 495 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodland Beach's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodland Beach's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Nov 9 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 495 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodland Beach, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodland Beach's boundary and the 333 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodland Beach's own centroid, the Huron/Erie Lake PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Woodland Beachlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodland Beach's 333 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 Woodland Beach's 333 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodland Beach you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 333 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Woodland Beach-wide figureread your own land →