Hopedale, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Hopedale, 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 Hopedale lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hopedale — the short answer
Hopedale, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 750 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~212
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 750 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 Hopedale's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hopedale's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hopedale
Each reading below is measured for Hopedale itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHopedale runs about 212 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
MeasuredHopedale 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 Hopedale is in
Hopedale sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hopedale's own centroid rather than borrowed from Harrison County.
What Grows in Hopedale
Every plant below cleared Hopedale's own zone 6b and its 212-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hopedale?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Hopedale
Spotted lanternfly documented 11 miles from Hopedale, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hopedale
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hopedale. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HOPEDALE HARDWAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- HARRISON HILLS SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- HOPEDALE MILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- SCHER CASH INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CARSON PETROLEUM HOPEDALE BULKUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- HOPEDALE AUTO REPAIRBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- HOPEDALE MINING LLC - PREPARATION PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 1.6 mi
- ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS HOPEDALE STATIONBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- LAUREL VALLEY OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- DRAVO-MARKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- AT&TUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- MARKWEST HOPEDALE FRACTIONATORToxics Release Inventory · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hopedale'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 Hopedale.
Total Sites
134
within ~10 miles of Hopedale
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hopedale
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hopedale
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hopedale, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 94 sites within ~10 miles of Hopedale. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Hopedale
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 Hopedale average
Your land is one point inside Hopedale
Everything above resolves to Hopedale as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 750 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 Hopedale Average
Hopedale Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Hopedale
- ●One soil character for all of Hopedale
- ●Frost dates read at Hopedale's scale: Apr 8 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hopedale's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hopedale
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hopedale, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hopedale averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hopedale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Hopedale
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 Hopedale’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 Hopedale
When does frost risk typically end in Hopedale?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hopedale typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Hopedale?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hopedale typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hopedale?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hopedale sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 23, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hopedale?
The federal record around Hopedale is a meaningful one — 134 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (94), 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 Hopedale?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hopedale's scale — its 6b band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hopedale'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 Hopedale’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hopedale's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 750 acres it covers and 134 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hopedale's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hopedale's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Nov 6 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 134 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hopedale, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hopedale's boundary and the 750 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~212-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hopedale's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Hopedalelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hopedale's 750 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Harrison County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Harrison 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 Harrison County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hopedale's 750 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hopedale you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 750 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 Hopedale-wide figureread your own land →
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