Hunting Valley, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Hunting 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 Hunting 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 Hunting Valley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Hunting Valley — the short answer
Hunting Valley, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~214
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Hunting Valley's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hunting Valley's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hunting Valley
Each reading below is measured for Hunting Valley itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHunting Valley runs about 214 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
MeasuredHunting Valley 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 Hunting Valley is in
Hunting Valley sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hunting Valley's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cuyahoga County.
What Grows in Hunting Valley
Every plant below cleared Hunting Valley's own zone 6b and its 214-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hunting Valley?
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 Nov 14 — 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 Hunting Valley
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Hunting Valley, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hunting Valley
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hunting Valley. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SQUIRE VALLEEVUE FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SQUIRE VALLEEVUEBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- VILLAGE OF HUNTING VALLEYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- UNIVERSITY SCHOOLBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- UNIVERSITY SCHOOL-UPPER SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- PEPPER PIKE CLUB CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- RESIDENTIALUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- GREY EAGLE CHASE MERCURYSuperfund · 1.6 mi
- GILMOUR ACADEMYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- HOP-INBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- SUNOCO HOP-INUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- ACACIA PARK CEMETERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hunting 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 Hunting Valley.
Total Sites
1,931
within ~10 miles of Hunting Valley
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
17 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hunting Valley
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hunting Valley
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hunting Valley, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 202 sites within ~10 miles of Hunting Valley. 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 Hunting 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 Hunting Valley average
Your land is one point inside Hunting Valley
Everything above resolves to Hunting Valley as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Hunting Valley Average
Hunting Valley Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Hunting Valley
- ●One soil character for all of Hunting Valley
- ●Frost dates read at Hunting Valley's scale: Apr 14 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hunting Valley's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hunting Valley
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hunting Valley, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hunting Valley averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hunting Valley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hunting Valley average
How we know this about Hunting 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 Hunting 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 Hunting Valley
When does frost risk typically end in Hunting Valley?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hunting Valley 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 Hunting Valley?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hunting Valley typically arrives around Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 31, so the watching starts about Oct 15 — about 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hunting Valley?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hunting Valley sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 31, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hunting Valley?
The federal record around Hunting Valley is a meaningful one — 1,931 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (940), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Hunting Valley?
From about Oct 15 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hunting Valley's scale — its 6b band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hunting 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 Hunting Valley’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hunting Valley's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,051 acres it covers and 1,931 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hunting Valley's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hunting Valley's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Nov 14 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,931 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hunting Valley, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hunting Valley's boundary and the 5,051 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~214-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hunting Valley's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Hunting Valleylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hunting Valley's 5,051 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cuyahoga County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hunting Valley's 5,051 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hunting 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 5,051 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Hunting Valley-wide figureread your own land →