Frazeysburg, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Frazeysburg, 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 Frazeysburg 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 Frazeysburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Frazeysburg — the short answer
Frazeysburg, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 203 days between hard freezes, across 657 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- 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 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~203
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 657 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 Frazeysburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Frazeysburg's 203-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Frazeysburg
Each reading below is measured for Frazeysburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFrazeysburg runs about 203 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
MeasuredFrazeysburg 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 Frazeysburg is in
Frazeysburg sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Frazeysburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Muskingum County.
What Grows in Frazeysburg
Every plant below cleared Frazeysburg's own zone 6b and its 203-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Frazeysburg?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 1 — 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 Frazeysburg
Spotted lanternfly documented 15 miles from Frazeysburg, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Frazeysburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Frazeysburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CCC TIRE & SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- LAWLER GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- FRAZEYSBURG VOL FIRE DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- DK MANUFACTURING FRAYEZBURG, INCToxics Release Inventory · 1000 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #7762Brownfields · 1600 ft
- FRAZEYSBURG DUCHESSBrownfields · 1700 ft
- FRAZEYSBURG DUCHESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- FANATICS INCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- RIDGE CORPORATIONToxics Release Inventory · 1.8 mi
- GARYS AFFORDABLE AUTO REPAIR & SERVICEBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- LONGABERGER COMPANY (0660000111)Toxics Release Inventory · 2.5 mi
- LONGABERGER COMPANY (0660000111)Brownfields · 2.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Frazeysburg'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 Frazeysburg.
Total Sites
84
within ~10 miles of Frazeysburg
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Frazeysburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Frazeysburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Frazeysburg, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 7 sites within ~10 miles of Frazeysburg. 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.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Frazeysburg
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 Frazeysburg average
Your land is one point inside Frazeysburg
Everything above resolves to Frazeysburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 657 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 Frazeysburg Average
Frazeysburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Frazeysburg
- ●One soil character for all of Frazeysburg
- ●Frost dates read at Frazeysburg's scale: Apr 12 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Frazeysburg's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Frazeysburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Frazeysburg, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Frazeysburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Frazeysburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Frazeysburg average
How we know this about Frazeysburg
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 Frazeysburg’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 Frazeysburg
When does frost risk typically end in Frazeysburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Frazeysburg 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 Frazeysburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Frazeysburg typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 203 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Frazeysburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Frazeysburg sees about 203 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 18, about 168 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Frazeysburg?
The federal record around Frazeysburg is a meaningful one — 84 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (41), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Frazeysburg?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Frazeysburg's scale — its 6b band and its 203-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Frazeysburg'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 Frazeysburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Frazeysburg's own scale — its own ~203-day season between 28°F freezes, the 657 acres it covers and 84 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Frazeysburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Frazeysburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Nov 1 and the ~203-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 84 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Frazeysburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Frazeysburg's boundary and the 657 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~203-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Frazeysburg's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Frazeysburglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Frazeysburg's 657 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Muskingum County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Muskingum 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 Muskingum County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Frazeysburg's 657 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Frazeysburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 657 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Frazeysburg-wide figureread your own land →
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