Granville, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Granville, 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 Granville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Granville — the short answer
Granville, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 196 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~196
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 6a is Granville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Granville's 196-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Granville
Each reading below is measured for Granville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGranville runs about 196 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
MeasuredGranville sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Granville is in
Granville sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Granville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Licking County.
What Grows in Granville
Every plant below cleared Granville's own zone 6a and its 196-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Granville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Granville
Spotted lanternfly documented 23 miles from Granville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Granville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Granville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JENKINS SUNOCO SERVICE STATION-JENKINS SUNOCO SERVICE STATIONBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- Certified 486Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CERTIFIED OIL CO. #274Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- TJX CORPORATE TECHNOLOGY CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- CERTIFIED GAS STATION 274Brownfields · 1.0 mi
- K-CEPS AUTO BODYBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICEBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- HARMON BURKE FIELDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #0396Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- MARATHON #1132Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Windstream OHIO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- SPEEDWAY #8640Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Granville'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 Granville.
Total Sites
485
within ~10 miles of Granville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
11 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Granville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Granville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Granville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Granville — Superfund (11 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (34 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Granville
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 Granville average
Your land is one point inside Granville
Everything above resolves to Granville 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 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 Granville Average
Granville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Granville
- ●One soil character for all of Granville
- ●Frost dates read at Granville's scale: Apr 14 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Granville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Granville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Granville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Granville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Granville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Granville average
How we know this about Granville
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 Granville’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 Granville
When does frost risk typically end in Granville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Granville typically lands around Apr 14, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Granville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Granville typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 196 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Granville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Granville sees about 196 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 13, about 161 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Granville?
The federal record around Granville is a meaningful one — 485 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (231), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.9 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 Granville?
From about Sep 27 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Granville's scale — its 6a band and its 196-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Granville'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 Granville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Granville's own scale — its own ~196-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,078 acres it covers and 485 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Granville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Granville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Oct 27 and the ~196-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 485 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Granville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Granville's boundary and the 3,078 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~196-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Granville's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Granvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Granville's 3,078 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Licking County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Licking 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 Licking County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Granville's 3,078 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Granville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,078 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.9 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 Granville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioGranville sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.
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