Dexter City, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Dexter City, 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 Dexter City lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Dexter City — the short answer
Dexter City, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 107 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 107 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 Dexter City's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Dexter City's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Dexter City
Each reading below is measured for Dexter City itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDexter City runs about 201 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
MeasuredDexter City 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 Dexter City is in
Dexter City sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Dexter City's own centroid rather than borrowed from Noble County.
What Grows in Dexter City
Every plant below cleared Dexter City's own zone 6b and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Dexter City?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — 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 Dexter City
Survey cells within 31 miles of Dexter City checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 32 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Dexter City
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Dexter City. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ABANDONED USTUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- GUY'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- B & N COAL INCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- B & N COAL, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- ODOT MACKSBURG OUTPOSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- SOUTHEASTERN OHIO LIBRARYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- CROCK C & DD LANDFILLBrownfields · 2.4 mi
- E&E FARMS(FORMER WAREHOUSE PARTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- HENTHORNE'S TIRES & GUNSBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- CALDWELL VILLAGE PWSPFAS · 4.4 mi
- NATIONAL GAS & OIL CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- ODNR WOLF RUN STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Dexter City'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 Dexter City.
Total Sites
74
within ~10 miles of Dexter City
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Dexter City
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Dexter City
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.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
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Your land is one point inside Dexter City
Everything above resolves to Dexter City as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 107 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 Dexter City Average
Dexter City Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Dexter City
- ●One soil character for all of Dexter City
- ●Frost dates read at Dexter City's scale: Apr 11 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Dexter City's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Dexter City — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Dexter City
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 Dexter City’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 Dexter City
When does frost risk typically end in Dexter City?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Dexter City typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Dexter City?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Dexter City typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Dexter City?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Dexter City sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 15, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Dexter City?
The federal record around Dexter City is a meaningful one — 74 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (41), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Dexter City?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Dexter City's scale — its 6b band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Dexter City'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 Dexter City’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Dexter City's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 107 acres it covers and 74 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Dexter City's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Dexter City's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Oct 29 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 74 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Dexter City, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Dexter City's boundary and the 107 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Dexter City's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Dexter City 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 Dexter City's 107 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Noble County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Noble 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 Noble County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Dexter City's 107 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Dexter City you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 107 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Dexter City-wide figureread your own land →
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