Hicksville, 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.
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 Hicksville, 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 Hicksville 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 Hicksville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Hicksville — the short answer
Hicksville, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 194 days between hard freezes, across 2K 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 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~194
- 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 6a is Hicksville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hicksville's 194-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hicksville
Each reading below is measured for Hicksville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHicksville runs about 194 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
MeasuredHicksville 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 Hicksville is in
Hicksville sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hicksville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Defiance County is mostly Huron/Erie Lake Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Hicksville
Every plant below cleared Hicksville's own zone 6a and its 194-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hicksville?
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 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 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 Hicksville
Spotted lanternfly documented 26 miles from Hicksville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hicksville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hicksville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HICKSVILLE BUILDING LOANUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- BOB'S AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- HICKSVILLE MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- HICKSVILLE SHELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- H & W AUTOMOTIVE PARTS INCBrownfields · 1100 ft
- BP OIL COBrownfields · 1300 ft
- LASSUS BROTHERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #3431Brownfields · 1300 ft
- SURPLUS SUPPLIESBrownfields · 1700 ft
- THE CROOK-MILLER CO.Brownfields · 1900 ft
- SLATTERY OIL-COUGARUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- COMMERCIAL INTERTECH CORP.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hicksville'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 Hicksville.
Total Sites
95
within ~10 miles of Hicksville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
16 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hicksville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hicksville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hicksville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 16 sites within ~10 miles of Hicksville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Hicksville
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 Hicksville average
Your land is one point inside Hicksville
Everything above resolves to Hicksville 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 Hicksville Average
Hicksville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Hicksville
- ●One soil character for all of Hicksville
- ●Frost dates read at Hicksville's scale: Apr 14 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hicksville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hicksville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hicksville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hicksville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hicksville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hicksville average
How we know this about Hicksville
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 Hicksville’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 Hicksville
When does frost risk typically end in Hicksville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hicksville 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 Hicksville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hicksville 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 194 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hicksville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hicksville sees about 194 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 11, about 159 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hicksville?
The federal record around Hicksville shows 95 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (44), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Hicksville?
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 Hicksville's scale — its 6a band and its 194-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hicksville'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 Hicksville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hicksville's own scale — its own ~194-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,635 acres it covers and 95 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hicksville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hicksville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Oct 25 and the ~194-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 95 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hicksville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hicksville's boundary and the 1,635 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~194-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Hicksville sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Hicksvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hicksville's 1,635 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Defiance County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Defiance 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 Defiance County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hicksville's 1,635 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hicksville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,635 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Hicksville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioHicksville sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.