Bloomingville, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Bloomingville, 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 Bloomingville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bloomingville — the short answer
Bloomingville, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 223 days between hard freezes, across 818 acres of town.
- 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 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~223
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 818 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 Bloomingville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bloomingville's 223-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bloomingville
Each reading below is measured for Bloomingville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBloomingville runs about 223 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
MeasuredBloomingville 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 Bloomingville is in
Bloomingville sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bloomingville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Erie County.
What Grows in Bloomingville
Every plant below cleared Bloomingville's own zone 6b and its 223-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bloomingville?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. 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 13 — 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 Bloomingville
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Bloomingville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bloomingville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bloomingville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SBC L52404Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- STANDARD BEVERAGE WINE, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- RT 4 - GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- ELYRIA CONCRETE INCBrownfields · 2.6 mi
- MAPLE VIEW FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- HANSON AGGREGATES MIDWEST INC SANDUSKY QUARRYBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- STONECO INC PARKERTOWN PLANT *Brownfields · 3.0 mi
- J. H. ROUTH PACKING CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- SANDUSKY CRUSHED STONE CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- NEXUS GAS TRANSMISSION LLC N1002 DEO PARKERTOWNBrownfields · 3.4 mi
- ODOT ORPHAN TANKUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- CLEVELAND CLINIC CANCER CENTER SANDUSKYBrownfields · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bloomingville'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 Bloomingville.
Total Sites
562
within ~10 miles of Bloomingville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bloomingville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bloomingville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bloomingville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Bloomingville — Toxics Release Inventory (54 sites) and PFAS (6 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 Bloomingville
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 Bloomingville average
Your land is one point inside Bloomingville
Everything above resolves to Bloomingville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 818 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 Bloomingville Average
Bloomingville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Bloomingville
- ●One soil character for all of Bloomingville
- ●Frost dates read at Bloomingville's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bloomingville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bloomingville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bloomingville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bloomingville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bloomingville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bloomingville average
How we know this about Bloomingville
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 Bloomingville’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 Bloomingville
When does frost risk typically end in Bloomingville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bloomingville 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 Bloomingville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bloomingville typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 223 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bloomingville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bloomingville sees about 223 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 30, about 188 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bloomingville?
The federal record around Bloomingville is a meaningful one — 562 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (294), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Bloomingville?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bloomingville's scale — its 6b band and its 223-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bloomingville'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 Bloomingville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bloomingville's own scale — its own ~223-day season between 28°F freezes, the 818 acres it covers and 562 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bloomingville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bloomingville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 13 and the ~223-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 562 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bloomingville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bloomingville's boundary and the 818 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~223-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bloomingville's own centroid, the Huron/Erie Lake PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Bloomingvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bloomingville's 818 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Erie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Erie 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 Erie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bloomingville's 818 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bloomingville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 818 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Bloomingville-wide figureread your own land →
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