Beavercreek, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Beavercreek, 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 Beavercreek lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Beavercreek — the short answer
Beavercreek, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 17K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~214
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 17K 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 Beavercreek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beavercreek's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beavercreek
Each reading below is measured for Beavercreek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeavercreek runs about 214 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
MeasuredBeavercreek 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 Beavercreek is in
Beavercreek sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Beavercreek's own centroid rather than borrowed from Greene County.
What Grows in Beavercreek
Every plant below cleared Beavercreek's own zone 6b and its 214-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beavercreek?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Beavercreek
Spotted lanternfly documented 15 miles from Beavercreek, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Beavercreek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beavercreek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NU-GLO LABORATORYSuperfund · 1200 ft
- MEAD TECHNOLOGY LABORATORIESBrownfields · 1400 ft
- GILLIGAN OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #3458Brownfields · 1600 ft
- CUMBERLAND GULF #124482Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- CATES SALES & SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- GILLIGAN OIL #1235Brownfields · 1900 ft
- BEAVERCREEK COMMUNITY LIBRARYBrownfields · 2200 ft
- OHIO BELL TELEPHONE CO. L56126Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- DURNBAUGH ROAD SITESuperfund · 0.5 mi
- SHEETZ #812Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- CARBIDE PROBES INCBrownfields · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beavercreek'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 Beavercreek.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beavercreek
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beavercreek
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beavercreek, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Beavercreek — Superfund (49 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (144 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 Beavercreek
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 Beavercreek average
Your land is one point inside Beavercreek
Everything above resolves to Beavercreek as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 17K 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 Beavercreek Average
Beavercreek Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Beavercreek
- ●One soil character for all of Beavercreek
- ●Frost dates read at Beavercreek's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beavercreek's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beavercreek
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beavercreek, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beavercreek averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beavercreek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beavercreek average
How we know this about Beavercreek
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 Beavercreek’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 Beavercreek
When does frost risk typically end in Beavercreek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beavercreek typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Beavercreek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beavercreek typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beavercreek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beavercreek sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 21, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beavercreek?
The federal record around Beavercreek runs heavier than most — 1,904 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (882), the nearest Superfund record about 0.2 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 Beavercreek?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beavercreek's scale — its 6b band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beavercreek'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 Beavercreek’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Beavercreek's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 17,020 acres it covers and 1,904 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beavercreek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beavercreek's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 4 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,904 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beavercreek, the closest Superfund record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beavercreek's boundary and the 17,020 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~214-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Beavercreek's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Beavercreeklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beavercreek's 17,020 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Greene County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Greene County
- The growing challenges every Ohio grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Ohio
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Greene County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beavercreek's 17,020 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beavercreek you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 17,020 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund 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 Beavercreek-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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