Hayesville, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Hayesville, 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 Hayesville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hayesville — the short answer
Hayesville, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 190 days between hard freezes, across 472 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~190
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 472 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 Hayesville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hayesville's 190-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hayesville
Each reading below is measured for Hayesville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHayesville runs about 190 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
MeasuredHayesville 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 Hayesville is in
Hayesville sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hayesville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ashland County.
What Grows in Hayesville
Every plant below cleared Hayesville's own zone 6a and its 190-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hayesville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Hayesville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Hayesville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 40 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hayesville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hayesville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FORMER TERRY'S MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- CUSTOM HOISTS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- FORMER MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- VERMILION TOWNSHIP TRUSTEESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- ASHLAND COUNTY WEST HOLMES JVSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- HAYESVILLE BELLSTORESUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- CUSTOM HOISTSToxics Release Inventory · 0.7 mi
- ROHRER CORPORATIONBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- CUSTOM HOISTS INCToxics Release Inventory · 0.9 mi
- ASHLAND COUNTY - WEST HOLMES JVSBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- HILLSDALE HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- MUFFLERS & MOREBrownfields · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hayesville'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 Hayesville.
Total Sites
243
within ~10 miles of Hayesville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
25 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hayesville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hayesville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hayesville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 25 sites within ~10 miles of Hayesville. 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 Hayesville
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 Hayesville average
Your land is one point inside Hayesville
Everything above resolves to Hayesville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 472 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 Hayesville Average
Hayesville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Hayesville
- ●One soil character for all of Hayesville
- ●Frost dates read at Hayesville's scale: Apr 18 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hayesville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hayesville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hayesville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hayesville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hayesville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hayesville average
How we know this about Hayesville
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 Hayesville’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 Hayesville
When does frost risk typically end in Hayesville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hayesville typically lands around Apr 18, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Hayesville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hayesville typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 190 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hayesville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hayesville sees about 190 frost-free days — roughly Apr 18 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 9 to Oct 11, about 155 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hayesville?
The federal record around Hayesville is a meaningful one — 243 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (141), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Hayesville?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hayesville's scale — its 6a band and its 190-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hayesville'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 Hayesville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hayesville's own scale — its own ~190-day season between 28°F freezes, the 472 acres it covers and 243 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hayesville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hayesville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 18 and Oct 25 and the ~190-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 243 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hayesville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hayesville's boundary and the 472 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~190-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hayesville's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Hayesville 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 Hayesville's 472 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ashland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ashland 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 Ashland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hayesville's 472 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hayesville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 472 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Hayesville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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