Fairview Park, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Fairview Park, 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 Fairview Park 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 Fairview Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Fairview Park — the short answer
Fairview Park, Ohio: USDA zone 7a, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~233
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 3K 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 7a is Fairview Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fairview Park's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fairview Park
Each reading below is measured for Fairview Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFairview Park runs about 233 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
MeasuredFairview Park sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Fairview Park is in
Fairview Park sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Fairview Park's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Cuyahoga County is mostly Erie Drift Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Fairview Park
Every plant below cleared Fairview Park's own zone 7a and its 233-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fairview Park?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Fairview Park
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Fairview Park, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Fairview Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fairview Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FPHS MERCURY SPILLSuperfund · 1000 ft
- CITY OF FAIRVIEW PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- FAIRVIEW GENTLE TOUCH CAR WASHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- PATS LEE CLEANERSBrownfields · 1500 ft
- BP OIL CO. #01945Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- BP OIL CO SITE 01945 *Brownfields · 1600 ft
- ADAM PANGRACE & SONSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- GIANT EAGLE STORE #5810Brownfields · 2100 ft
- BATTENHOUSE AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- GetGo#3376Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- GETGO 3376Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- CIRCLE K 5664Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fairview Park'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 Fairview Park.
Total Sites
2,362
within ~10 miles of Fairview Park
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
25 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fairview Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fairview Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fairview Park, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 197 sites within ~10 miles of Fairview Park. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Fairview Park
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 Fairview Park average
Your land is one point inside Fairview Park
Everything above resolves to Fairview Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Fairview Park Average
Fairview Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Fairview Park
- ●One soil character for all of Fairview Park
- ●Frost dates read at Fairview Park's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fairview Park's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fairview Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fairview Park, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fairview Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fairview Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fairview Park average
How we know this about Fairview Park
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 Fairview Park’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 Fairview Park
When does frost risk typically end in Fairview Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fairview Park typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Fairview Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fairview Park typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 233 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fairview Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fairview Park sees about 233 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Nov 6, about 198 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fairview Park?
The federal record around Fairview Park is a meaningful one — 2,362 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,264), the nearest Superfund record about 0.2 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 Fairview Park?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fairview Park's scale — its 7a band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fairview Park'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 Fairview Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Fairview Park's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,001 acres it covers and 2,362 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fairview Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fairview Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 20 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,362 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fairview Park, the closest Superfund record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fairview Park's boundary and the 3,001 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~233-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Fairview Park sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Fairview Parklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Fairview Park's 3,001 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cuyahoga County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fairview Park's 3,001 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fairview Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,001 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund record about 0.2 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 Fairview Park-wide figureread your own land →