Chesterville, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Chesterville, 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 Chesterville 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 Chesterville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Chesterville — the short answer
Chesterville, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 193 days between hard freezes, across 131 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~193
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 131 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 Chesterville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Chesterville's 193-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Chesterville
Each reading below is measured for Chesterville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredChesterville runs about 193 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
MeasuredChesterville 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 Chesterville is in
Chesterville sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Chesterville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Morrow County.
What Grows in Chesterville
Every plant below cleared Chesterville's own zone 6a and its 193-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Chesterville?
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 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Chesterville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Chesterville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 36 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Chesterville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Chesterville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MT. GILEAD TRUCK PLAZAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- CHESTER TOWNSHIP HALLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- MOUNT GILEAD TRUCK PLAZA (DUKE/DUCHESS)Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- LUBRICATION SPECIALTIESToxics Release Inventory · 2.0 mi
- ATD ENTERPRISES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- CHESTERVILLE OUT POSTBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- KNIGHT ENTERPRISES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- I71 RT 95 SHELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- K-4 OHNitrate · 2.9 mi
- UNITED DAIRY FARMERS #633Underground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 5.4 mi
- C&D CARRYOUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Chesterville'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 Chesterville.
Total Sites
87
within ~10 miles of Chesterville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Chesterville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Chesterville
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
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Your land is one point inside Chesterville
Everything above resolves to Chesterville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 131 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 Chesterville Average
Chesterville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Chesterville
- ●One soil character for all of Chesterville
- ●Frost dates read at Chesterville's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Chesterville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Chesterville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Chesterville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Chesterville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Chesterville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Chesterville average
How we know this about Chesterville
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 Chesterville’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 Chesterville
When does frost risk typically end in Chesterville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Chesterville typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Chesterville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Chesterville typically arrives around Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 12, so the watching starts about Sep 26 — about 193 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Chesterville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Chesterville sees about 193 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 12, about 158 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Chesterville?
The federal record around Chesterville is a meaningful one — 87 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (51), 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 Chesterville?
From about Sep 26 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Chesterville's scale — its 6a band and its 193-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Chesterville'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 Chesterville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Chesterville's own scale — its own ~193-day season between 28°F freezes, the 131 acres it covers and 87 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Chesterville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Chesterville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 26 and the ~193-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 87 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Chesterville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Chesterville's boundary and the 131 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~193-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Chesterville's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Chesterville 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 Chesterville's 131 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Morrow County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Morrow 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 Morrow County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Chesterville's 131 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Chesterville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 131 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 Chesterville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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