Bettsville, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bettsville, 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 Bettsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bettsville — the short answer
Bettsville, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 206 days between hard freezes, across 333 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 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~206
- 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 6a is Bettsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bettsville's 206-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bettsville
Each reading below is measured for Bettsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBettsville runs about 206 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
MeasuredBettsville 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 Bettsville is in
Bettsville sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bettsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Seneca County.
What Grows in Bettsville
Every plant below cleared Bettsville's own zone 6a and its 206-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bettsville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Bettsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 28 miles from Bettsville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bettsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bettsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 077 Bettsville MarathonUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- VESUVIUS USABrownfields · 2300 ft
- PREMIER REFRACTORIES LABBrownfields · 2300 ft
- ROCKY PINE FARMS LLCBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- S-126-J33 MUTCHLER NR BURGOON OHNitrate · 1.8 mi
- CARMEUSE LIME MAPLE GROVE OPERATIONSToxics Release Inventory · 1.9 mi
- VESUVIUS USA MAPLE GROVE PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 1.9 mi
- CARMEUSE LIME MAPLE GROVE OPERATIONSBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- Maple Grove Lime PlantMining · 1.9 mi
- M & B ASPHALT CO INCBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- KANSASUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- CARD N-GO FUELSTOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bettsville'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 Bettsville.
Total Sites
333
within ~10 miles of Bettsville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bettsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bettsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bettsville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 31 sites within ~10 miles of Bettsville. 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.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Bettsville
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 Bettsville average
Your land is one point inside Bettsville
Everything above resolves to Bettsville 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 Bettsville Average
Bettsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Bettsville
- ●One soil character for all of Bettsville
- ●Frost dates read at Bettsville's scale: Apr 12 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bettsville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bettsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bettsville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bettsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bettsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bettsville average
How we know this about Bettsville
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 Bettsville’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 Bettsville
When does frost risk typically end in Bettsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bettsville 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 Bettsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bettsville 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 206 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bettsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bettsville sees about 206 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 21, about 171 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bettsville?
The federal record around Bettsville is a meaningful one — 333 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (134), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Bettsville?
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 Bettsville's scale — its 6a band and its 206-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bettsville'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 Bettsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bettsville's own scale — its own ~206-day season between 28°F freezes, the 333 acres it covers and 333 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bettsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bettsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Nov 4 and the ~206-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 333 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bettsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bettsville's boundary and the 333 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~206-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bettsville's own centroid, the Huron/Erie Lake PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Bettsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bettsville's 333 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Seneca County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Seneca 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 Seneca County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bettsville's 333 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bettsville 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 0.2 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 Bettsville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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