Chippewa Lake, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Chippewa Lake, 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 Chippewa Lake 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 Chippewa Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Chippewa Lake — the short answer
Chippewa Lake, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 158 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 158 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 Chippewa Lake's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Chippewa Lake's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Chippewa Lake
Each reading below is measured for Chippewa Lake itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredChippewa Lake runs about 208 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
MeasuredChippewa Lake 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 Chippewa Lake is in
Chippewa Lake sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Chippewa Lake's own centroid rather than borrowed from Medina County.
What Grows in Chippewa Lake
Every plant below cleared Chippewa Lake's own zone 6a and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Chippewa Lake?
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 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Chippewa Lake
Spotted lanternfly documented 15 miles from Chippewa Lake, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Chippewa Lake
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Chippewa Lake. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MINIT MART #791Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CHIPPEWA LAKE HARDWAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- DON'S MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ROBERT LEATHERMANUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- MEDINA COUNTY HIGHWAY GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- UNITED RENTALSBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- MEDINA FIREARMS SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- UNIVERSITY OF AKRONBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- MEDINA PETROLEUM INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- TIGER GENERAL CYCLES R USBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- TREE MASTERSBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- LAFAYETTE TWP GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Chippewa Lake'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 Chippewa Lake.
Total Sites
453
within ~10 miles of Chippewa Lake
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Chippewa Lake
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Chippewa Lake
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Chippewa Lake, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Chippewa Lake — Toxics Release Inventory (68 sites) and PFAS (5 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 Chippewa Lake
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 Chippewa Lake average
Your land is one point inside Chippewa Lake
Everything above resolves to Chippewa Lake as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 158 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 Chippewa Lake Average
Chippewa Lake Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Chippewa Lake
- ●One soil character for all of Chippewa Lake
- ●Frost dates read at Chippewa Lake's scale: Apr 12 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Chippewa Lake's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Chippewa Lake
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Chippewa Lake, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Chippewa Lake averages can't show:
We read public map data around Chippewa Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Chippewa Lake average
How we know this about Chippewa Lake
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 Chippewa Lake’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 Chippewa Lake
When does frost risk typically end in Chippewa Lake?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Chippewa Lake typically lands around Apr 12, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Chippewa Lake?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Chippewa Lake typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Chippewa Lake?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Chippewa Lake sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 23, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Chippewa Lake?
The federal record around Chippewa Lake is a meaningful one — 453 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (211), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Chippewa Lake?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Chippewa Lake's scale — its 6a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Chippewa Lake'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 Chippewa Lake’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Chippewa Lake's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 158 acres it covers and 453 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Chippewa Lake's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Chippewa Lake's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Nov 6 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 453 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Chippewa Lake, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Chippewa Lake's boundary and the 158 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Chippewa Lake's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Chippewa Lakelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Chippewa Lake's 158 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Medina County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Medina 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 Medina County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Chippewa Lake's 158 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Chippewa Lake you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 158 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Chippewa Lake-wide figureread your own land →