Bucyrus, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bucyrus, 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 Bucyrus lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bucyrus — the short answer
Bucyrus, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 204 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~204
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 5K 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 Bucyrus's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bucyrus's 204-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bucyrus
Each reading below is measured for Bucyrus itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBucyrus runs about 204 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
MeasuredBucyrus 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 Bucyrus is in
Bucyrus sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bucyrus's own centroid rather than borrowed from Crawford County.
What Grows in Bucyrus
Every plant below cleared Bucyrus's own zone 6a and its 204-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bucyrus?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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 Bucyrus
Survey cells within 31 miles of Bucyrus checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 46 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bucyrus
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bucyrus. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STOP & SHOP #303Underground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- CHARLES STEELEUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #1234Brownfields · 850 ft
- CVS PHARMACY 3406Brownfields · 950 ft
- AMERACE CORP SWAN HOSE DIVISIONSuperfund · 1100 ft
- SHERWIN WILLIAMS #1955Brownfields · 1100 ft
- CITY OF BUCYRUSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- ECONOMY AUTO SALESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- BLACK GOLD BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- CENTURYLINKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- CRAWFORD COUNTY LAND REUTILIZATION CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- CLARK STORE NO 1015Brownfields · 1500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bucyrus'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 Bucyrus.
Total Sites
144
within ~10 miles of Bucyrus
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bucyrus
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bucyrus
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bucyrus, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Bucyrus. 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 Bucyrus
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 Bucyrus average
Your land is one point inside Bucyrus
Everything above resolves to Bucyrus as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Bucyrus Average
Bucyrus Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Bucyrus
- ●One soil character for all of Bucyrus
- ●Frost dates read at Bucyrus's scale: Apr 13 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bucyrus's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bucyrus
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bucyrus, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bucyrus averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bucyrus — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bucyrus average
How we know this about Bucyrus
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 Bucyrus’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 Bucyrus
When does frost risk typically end in Bucyrus?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bucyrus typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Bucyrus?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bucyrus typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 204 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bucyrus?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bucyrus sees about 204 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 20, about 169 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bucyrus?
The federal record around Bucyrus is a meaningful one — 144 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (77), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Bucyrus?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bucyrus's scale — its 6a band and its 204-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bucyrus'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 Bucyrus’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bucyrus's own scale — its own ~204-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,730 acres it covers and 144 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bucyrus's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bucyrus's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Nov 3 and the ~204-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 144 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bucyrus, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bucyrus's boundary and the 4,730 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~204-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bucyrus's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Bucyrus checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bucyrus's 4,730 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Crawford County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Crawford 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 Crawford County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bucyrus's 4,730 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bucyrus you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,730 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Bucyrus-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioBucyrus sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.
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