Chagrin Falls, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Chagrin Falls, 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 Chagrin Falls 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 Chagrin Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Chagrin Falls — the short answer
Chagrin Falls, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 210 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~210
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Chagrin Falls's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Chagrin Falls's 210-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Chagrin Falls
Each reading below is measured for Chagrin Falls itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredChagrin Falls runs about 210 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
MeasuredChagrin Falls 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 Chagrin Falls is in
Chagrin Falls sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Chagrin Falls's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cuyahoga County.
What Grows in Chagrin Falls
Every plant below cleared Chagrin Falls's own zone 6b and its 210-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Chagrin Falls?
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 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Chagrin Falls
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Chagrin Falls, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Chagrin Falls
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Chagrin Falls. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CVS PHARMACY 4101Brownfields · 300 ft
- CHAGRIN FALLS INTERMEDICATE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- CHAGRIN FALLS EXEMPTED VILLAGE SCHOOLSBrownfields · 400 ft
- 7-ELEVEN STORE #36246Underground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- 7-ELEVEN STORE #36246Brownfields · 600 ft
- SHEFFIELD MONUMENTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- FALLS GAS & OIL CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- DOWD AUTO LEASINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- OHIO BELL TELEPHONE CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- CHAGRIN FALLS DRY CLEANERS *Brownfields · 1200 ft
- JOHN H. PHILLIPSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- FORMER THE SKI HOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Chagrin Falls'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 Chagrin Falls.
Total Sites
1,386
within ~10 miles of Chagrin Falls
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
8 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Chagrin Falls
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Chagrin Falls
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Chagrin Falls, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 151 sites within ~10 miles of Chagrin Falls. 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 Chagrin Falls
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 Chagrin Falls average
Your land is one point inside Chagrin Falls
Everything above resolves to Chagrin Falls as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Chagrin Falls Average
Chagrin Falls Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Chagrin Falls
- ●One soil character for all of Chagrin Falls
- ●Frost dates read at Chagrin Falls's scale: Apr 14 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Chagrin Falls's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Chagrin Falls
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Chagrin Falls, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Chagrin Falls averages can't show:
We read public map data around Chagrin Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Chagrin Falls average
How we know this about Chagrin Falls
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 Chagrin Falls’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 Chagrin Falls
When does frost risk typically end in Chagrin Falls?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Chagrin Falls typically lands around Apr 14, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Chagrin Falls?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Chagrin Falls typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 210 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Chagrin Falls?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Chagrin Falls sees about 210 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 27, about 175 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Chagrin Falls?
The federal record around Chagrin Falls is a meaningful one — 1,386 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (648), the nearest Brownfields 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 Chagrin Falls?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Chagrin Falls's scale — its 6b band and its 210-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Chagrin Falls'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 Chagrin Falls’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Chagrin Falls's own scale — its own ~210-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,332 acres it covers and 1,386 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Chagrin Falls's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Chagrin Falls's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Nov 10 and the ~210-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,386 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Chagrin Falls, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Chagrin Falls's boundary and the 1,332 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~210-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Chagrin Falls's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Chagrin Fallslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Chagrin Falls's 1,332 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cuyahoga County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Chagrin Falls's 1,332 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Chagrin Falls you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,332 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Chagrin Falls-wide figureread your own land →