Gnadenhutten, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Gnadenhutten, 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 Gnadenhutten lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Gnadenhutten — the short answer
Gnadenhutten, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 193 days between hard freezes, across 586 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~193
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 586 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 Gnadenhutten's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Gnadenhutten's 193-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Gnadenhutten
Each reading below is measured for Gnadenhutten itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGnadenhutten runs about 193 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredGnadenhutten 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 Gnadenhutten is in
Gnadenhutten sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Gnadenhutten's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tuscarawas County.
What Grows in Gnadenhutten
Every plant below cleared Gnadenhutten's own zone 6b and its 193-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Gnadenhutten?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Gnadenhutten
Survey cells within 31 miles of Gnadenhutten checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 35 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Gnadenhutten
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Gnadenhutten. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CLAY TOWNSHIP GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- INDIAN VALLEY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- TUSCARAWAS COUNTY ENGINEERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- TUSCO DISPLAYToxics Release Inventory · 1700 ft
- MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #11326Brownfields · 2200 ft
- BROWN'S SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- OH7900512 Tuscarawas 01684 Production Well 0002Nitrate · 2500 ft
- INDIAN VILLAGE FEDERAL S & LUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- MARVIN CUSTOM INITIATOR MIXINGBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- AMKO SERVICE COBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- STOCKER SAND AND GRAVEL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Gnadenhutten'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 Gnadenhutten.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Gnadenhutten
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Gnadenhutten
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Gnadenhutten, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Gnadenhutten — PFAS (4 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (21 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Gnadenhutten
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 Gnadenhutten average
Your land is one point inside Gnadenhutten
Everything above resolves to Gnadenhutten as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 586 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 Gnadenhutten Average
Gnadenhutten Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Gnadenhutten
- ●One soil character for all of Gnadenhutten
- ●Frost dates read at Gnadenhutten's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Gnadenhutten's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Gnadenhutten
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Gnadenhutten, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Gnadenhutten averages can't show:
We read public map data around Gnadenhutten — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Gnadenhutten average
How we know this about Gnadenhutten
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 Gnadenhutten’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 Gnadenhutten
When does frost risk typically end in Gnadenhutten?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Gnadenhutten typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Gnadenhutten?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Gnadenhutten typically arrives around Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 12, so the watching starts about Sep 26 — about 193 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Gnadenhutten?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Gnadenhutten sees about 193 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 12, about 158 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Gnadenhutten?
The federal record around Gnadenhutten is a meaningful one — 275 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (157), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Gnadenhutten?
From about Sep 26 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Gnadenhutten's scale — its 6b band and its 193-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Gnadenhutten'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 Gnadenhutten’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Gnadenhutten's own scale — its own ~193-day season between 28°F freezes, the 586 acres it covers and 275 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Gnadenhutten's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Gnadenhutten's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 26 and the ~193-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 275 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Gnadenhutten, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Gnadenhutten's boundary and the 586 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~193-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Gnadenhutten's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Gnadenhutten 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 Gnadenhutten's 586 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tuscarawas County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tuscarawas 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 Tuscarawas County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Gnadenhutten's 586 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Gnadenhutten you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 586 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 Gnadenhutten-wide figureread your own land →
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