Enon, 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.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Enon, 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 Enon lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Enon — the short answer
Enon, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 828 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 828 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 Enon's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Enon's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Enon
Each reading below is measured for Enon itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEnon runs about 211 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
MeasuredEnon 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 Enon is in
Enon sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Enon's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clark County.
What Grows in Enon
Every plant below cleared Enon's own zone 6b and its 211-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Enon?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — 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 Enon
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Enon, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Enon
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Enon. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CIRCLE K #5341Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- ENON WASHED SAND & GRAVELUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- ODOT ENON OUTPOSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- GINGER AVENUE MERCURY SPILLSuperfund · 0.5 mi
- ENON MERCURY SPILLSuperfund · 0.8 mi
- CL-285 MIAM NAWQA LUS WELL BVAS URB-22 AT ENON, OHNitrate · 0.8 mi
- CL-289Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- CL-278 MIAM NAWQA SUS WELL BVAS-14Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- ENON FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- AIR CITY MOTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- SPEEDWAY #45492Brownfields · 1.0 mi
- CUMBERLAND GULF #124616Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Enon'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 Enon.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Enon
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Enon
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Enon, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Enon — PFAS (10 sites) and Superfund (14 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Enon
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Enon
Everything above resolves to Enon as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 828 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 Enon Average
Enon Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Enon
- ●One soil character for all of Enon
- ●Frost dates read at Enon's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Enon's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Enon
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Enon, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Enon averages can't show:
We read public map data around Enon — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Enon average
How we know this about Enon
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 Enon’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 Enon
When does frost risk typically end in Enon?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Enon typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Enon?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Enon typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Enon?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Enon sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 19, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Enon?
The federal record around Enon runs heavier than most — 728 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (338), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Enon?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Enon's scale — its 6b band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Enon'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 Enon’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Enon's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 828 acres it covers and 728 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Enon's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Enon's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 2 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 728 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Enon, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Enon's boundary and the 828 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Enon's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Enonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Enon's 828 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clark County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clark 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 Clark County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Enon's 828 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Enon you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 828 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 Enon-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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