Beechwood Trails, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Beechwood Trails, 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 Beechwood Trails 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 Beechwood Trails — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Beechwood Trails — the short answer
Beechwood Trails, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 203 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~203
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Beechwood Trails's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beechwood Trails's 203-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beechwood Trails
Each reading below is measured for Beechwood Trails itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeechwood Trails runs about 203 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
MeasuredBeechwood Trails 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 Beechwood Trails is in
Beechwood Trails sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Beechwood Trails's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Licking County is mostly Erie Drift Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Beechwood Trails
Every plant below cleared Beechwood Trails's own zone 6a and its 203-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beechwood Trails?
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 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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 Beechwood Trails
Spotted lanternfly documented 15 miles from Beechwood Trails, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Beechwood Trails
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beechwood Trails. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LI-40Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- SEAL-RITE DOOR INCBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #5425Brownfields · 1.6 mi
- COUGHLIN CHEVROLET OF PATASKALABrownfields · 1.7 mi
- KROGER #0591-016Brownfields · 1.7 mi
- SHELL GAS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- KROGER 591Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- BUSTER'S CORNER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- BP OIL CO. #08175Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- PATASKALA CITYPFAS · 2.1 mi
- UNITED DAIRY FARMERS #668Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- PATASKALA DUCHESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beechwood Trails'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 Beechwood Trails.
Total Sites
437
within ~10 miles of Beechwood Trails
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beechwood Trails
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beechwood Trails
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beechwood Trails, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Beechwood Trails — Toxics Release Inventory (41 sites) and PFAS (5 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Beechwood Trails
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 Beechwood Trails average
Your land is one point inside Beechwood Trails
Everything above resolves to Beechwood Trails as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Beechwood Trails Average
Beechwood Trails Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Beechwood Trails
- ●One soil character for all of Beechwood Trails
- ●Frost dates read at Beechwood Trails's scale: Apr 12 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beechwood Trails's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Beechwood Trails
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beechwood Trails, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beechwood Trails averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beechwood Trails — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beechwood Trails average
How we know this about Beechwood Trails
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 Beechwood Trails’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 Beechwood Trails
When does frost risk typically end in Beechwood Trails?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beechwood Trails typically lands around Apr 12, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Beechwood Trails?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beechwood Trails typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 203 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beechwood Trails?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beechwood Trails sees about 203 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 18, about 168 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beechwood Trails?
The federal record around Beechwood Trails is a meaningful one — 437 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (184), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.7 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 Beechwood Trails?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beechwood Trails's scale — its 6a band and its 203-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beechwood Trails'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 Beechwood Trails’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Beechwood Trails's own scale — its own ~203-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,276 acres it covers and 437 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beechwood Trails's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beechwood Trails's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Nov 1 and the ~203-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 437 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beechwood Trails, the closest Nitrate record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beechwood Trails's boundary and the 2,276 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~203-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Beechwood Trails sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Beechwood Trailslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beechwood Trails's 2,276 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Licking County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Licking 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 Licking County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beechwood Trails's 2,276 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beechwood Trails you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,276 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.7 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 Beechwood Trails-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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