Campbell, 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.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Campbell, 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 Campbell 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 Campbell — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Campbell — the short answer
Campbell, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~192
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 Campbell's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Campbell's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Campbell
Each reading below is measured for Campbell itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCampbell runs about 192 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCampbell 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 Campbell is in
Campbell sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Campbell's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mahoning County.
What Grows in Campbell
Every plant below cleared Campbell's own zone 6a and its 192-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Campbell?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Campbell
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Campbell, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Campbell
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Campbell. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PITTSUBRGH & LAKE ERIE RAILROADUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- ST JOSEPH PROVIDER CHURCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- ST. JOHN BAPTISTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- CAMPBELL MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- CLOSED SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #6605Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- SHERMAN INTERNATIONAL CORPBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- MARO'S AMOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- MAROS AMOCOBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- HAMPTON SITESuperfund · 0.7 mi
- BOOKER STREET PAINTSuperfund · 0.8 mi
- OHC MCCARTNEYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Campbell'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 Campbell.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Campbell
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Campbell
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Campbell, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 79 sites within ~10 miles of Campbell. 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 Campbell
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 Campbell average
Your land is one point inside Campbell
Everything above resolves to Campbell 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 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 Campbell Average
Campbell Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Campbell
- ●One soil character for all of Campbell
- ●Frost dates read at Campbell's scale: Apr 19 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Campbell's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Campbell
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Campbell, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Campbell averages can't show:
We read public map data around Campbell — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Campbell average
How we know this about Campbell
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 Campbell’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 Campbell
When does frost risk typically end in Campbell?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Campbell typically lands around Apr 19, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Campbell?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Campbell typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 192 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Campbell?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Campbell sees about 192 frost-free days — roughly Apr 19 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 10 to Oct 14, about 157 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Campbell?
The federal record around Campbell is a meaningful one — 1,109 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (589), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Campbell?
From about Sep 28 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 Oct 28 (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 Oct 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Campbell's scale — its 6a band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Campbell'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 Campbell’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Campbell's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,379 acres it covers and 1,109 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Campbell's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Campbell's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 19 and Oct 28 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,109 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Campbell, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Campbell's boundary and the 2,379 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~192-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Campbell's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Campbelllydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Campbell's 2,379 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mahoning County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mahoning 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 Mahoning County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Campbell's 2,379 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Campbell you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,379 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Campbell-wide figureread your own land →