Groesbeck, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Groesbeck, 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 Groesbeck lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Groesbeck — the short answer
Groesbeck, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- 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 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Groesbeck's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Groesbeck's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Groesbeck
Each reading below is measured for Groesbeck itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGroesbeck runs about 224 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
MeasuredGroesbeck 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 Groesbeck is in
Groesbeck sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Groesbeck's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hamilton County.
What Grows in Groesbeck
Every plant below cleared Groesbeck's own zone 6b and its 224-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Groesbeck?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 11 — 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 Groesbeck
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Groesbeck, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Groesbeck
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Groesbeck. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HOME DEPOT STORE #3814Brownfields · 1300 ft
- JOSEPH CHEVROLET CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- JOSEPH CHEVROLETBrownfields · 1800 ft
- CLAY COOLEY NISSANBrownfields · 1800 ft
- FISCA STATION #115Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- FORMERCOLERAIN DODGE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- BOB TOWNSEND FORDBrownfields · 2100 ft
- BLUST MOTOR SERVICE INCBrownfields · 2200 ft
- AL CASTRUCCI CHRYSLER PLYMOUTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- JOSEPH BUICK GMC TRUCK, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- NORTHGATE CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP RAMBrownfields · 2300 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #16873Brownfields · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Groesbeck'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 Groesbeck.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Groesbeck
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Groesbeck
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Groesbeck, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Groesbeck — Toxics Release Inventory (271 sites) and Superfund (45 sites). 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Groesbeck
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 Groesbeck
Everything above resolves to Groesbeck as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Groesbeck Average
Groesbeck Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Groesbeck
- ●One soil character for all of Groesbeck
- ●Frost dates read at Groesbeck's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Groesbeck's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Groesbeck
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Groesbeck, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Groesbeck averages can't show:
We read public map data around Groesbeck — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Groesbeck average
How we know this about Groesbeck
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 Groesbeck’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 Groesbeck
When does frost risk typically end in Groesbeck?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Groesbeck 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 Groesbeck?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Groesbeck typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Groesbeck?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Groesbeck sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 28, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Groesbeck?
The federal record around Groesbeck is a meaningful one — 2,544 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,305), the nearest Brownfields 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 Groesbeck?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Groesbeck's scale — its 6b band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Groesbeck'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 Groesbeck’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Groesbeck's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,877 acres it covers and 2,544 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Groesbeck's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Groesbeck's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 11 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,544 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Groesbeck, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Groesbeck's boundary and the 1,877 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~224-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Groesbeck's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Groesbecklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Groesbeck's 1,877 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hamilton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hamilton 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 Hamilton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Groesbeck's 1,877 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Groesbeck you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,877 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Groesbeck-wide figureread your own land →
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