Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Cuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Cuyahoga Falls — the short answer
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 17K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~222
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 17K 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 Cuyahoga Falls's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cuyahoga Falls's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cuyahoga Falls
Each reading below is measured for Cuyahoga Falls itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCuyahoga Falls runs about 222 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
MeasuredCuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga Falls is in
Cuyahoga Falls sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Cuyahoga Falls's own centroid rather than borrowed from Summit County.
What Grows in Cuyahoga Falls
Every plant below cleared Cuyahoga Falls's own zone 6b and its 222-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cuyahoga Falls?
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 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Cuyahoga Falls
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Cuyahoga Falls, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Cuyahoga Falls
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cuyahoga Falls. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WOODRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- MEDINA SUPPLY CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- NATIONAL PARK SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- WATER POLLUTION CONTROL STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- AKRON WATER POLLUTION CONTROLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- VZB-EVEROHUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- AKRON WPCS COMPOST FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- CITY OF AKRON LANDFILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- T.E. CLARKE FORD, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- BP OIL CO. #05693Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- CLARK OIL SERVICE STATION #1195Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- ULTRA TECH MACHINERYToxics Release Inventory · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga Falls.
Total Sites
1,587
within ~10 miles of Cuyahoga Falls
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
20 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cuyahoga Falls
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cuyahoga Falls
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cuyahoga Falls, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Cuyahoga Falls — Toxics Release Inventory (156 sites) and Superfund (20 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Cuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga Falls average
Your land is one point inside Cuyahoga Falls
Everything above resolves to Cuyahoga Falls as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 17K 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 Cuyahoga Falls Average
Cuyahoga Falls Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Cuyahoga Falls
- ●One soil character for all of Cuyahoga Falls
- ●Frost dates read at Cuyahoga Falls's scale: Apr 7 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cuyahoga Falls's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cuyahoga Falls
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cuyahoga Falls averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cuyahoga Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cuyahoga Falls average
How we know this about Cuyahoga Falls
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 Cuyahoga 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 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 Cuyahoga Falls
When does frost risk typically end in Cuyahoga Falls?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cuyahoga Falls typically lands around Apr 7, 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 Apr 28.
When is the first frost in Cuyahoga Falls?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cuyahoga Falls typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 222 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cuyahoga Falls?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cuyahoga Falls sees about 222 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Nov 1, about 187 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cuyahoga Falls?
The federal record around Cuyahoga Falls is a meaningful one — 1,587 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (749), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Cuyahoga Falls?
From about Oct 16 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cuyahoga Falls's scale — its 6b band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga Falls’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Cuyahoga Falls's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 16,509 acres it covers and 1,587 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cuyahoga Falls's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cuyahoga Falls's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Nov 15 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,587 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cuyahoga Falls, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cuyahoga Falls's boundary and the 16,509 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~222-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Cuyahoga Falls's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Cuyahoga Fallslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cuyahoga Falls's 16,509 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Summit County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Summit 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 Summit County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cuyahoga Falls's 16,509 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cuyahoga 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 16,509 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Cuyahoga Falls-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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