Holiday Valley, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Holiday Valley, 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 Holiday Valley 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 Holiday Valley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Holiday Valley — the short answer
Holiday Valley, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Holiday Valley's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Holiday Valley's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Holiday Valley
Each reading below is measured for Holiday Valley itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHoliday Valley runs about 211 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
MeasuredHoliday Valley 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 Holiday Valley is in
Holiday Valley sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Holiday Valley's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clark County.
What Grows in Holiday Valley
Every plant below cleared Holiday Valley's own zone 6a and its 211-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Holiday Valley?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — 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 Holiday Valley
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Holiday Valley, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Holiday Valley
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Holiday Valley. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- UNITED DAIRY FARMERS # 242Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- B.J.'S CARRY OUT & SERV STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- LARRYS BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #7430Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- ILONA GARMANUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- GINGER AVENUE MERCURY SPILLSuperfund · 1.3 mi
- CL-285 MIAM NAWQA LUS WELL BVAS URB-22 AT ENON, OHNitrate · 1.3 mi
- CL-289Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- DYNEX INDUSTRIES INCBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- ENON FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- CIRCLE K #5341Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- ENON WASHED SAND & GRAVELUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Holiday Valley'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 Holiday Valley.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Holiday Valley
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Holiday Valley
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Holiday Valley, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Holiday Valley — PFAS (12 sites) and Superfund (17 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Holiday Valley
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 Holiday Valley average
Your land is one point inside Holiday Valley
Everything above resolves to Holiday Valley as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Holiday Valley Average
Holiday Valley Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Holiday Valley
- ●One soil character for all of Holiday Valley
- ●Frost dates read at Holiday Valley's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Holiday Valley's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Holiday Valley
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Holiday Valley, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Holiday Valley averages can't show:
We read public map data around Holiday Valley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Holiday Valley average
How we know this about Holiday Valley
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 Holiday Valley’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 Holiday Valley
When does frost risk typically end in Holiday Valley?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Holiday Valley typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Holiday Valley?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Holiday Valley typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Holiday Valley?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Holiday Valley sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 19, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Holiday Valley?
The federal record around Holiday Valley runs heavier than most — 793 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (355), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Holiday Valley?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Holiday Valley's scale — its 6a band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Holiday Valley'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 Holiday Valley’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Holiday Valley's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,165 acres it covers and 793 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Holiday Valley's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Holiday Valley's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 2 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 793 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Holiday Valley, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Holiday Valley's boundary and the 1,165 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Holiday Valley's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Holiday Valleylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Holiday Valley's 1,165 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clark County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clark 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 Clark County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Holiday Valley's 1,165 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Holiday Valley you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,165 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Holiday Valley-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioHoliday Valley sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.
Nearby growing guides