Jerusalem, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Jerusalem, 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 Jerusalem 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 Jerusalem — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Jerusalem — the short answer
Jerusalem, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 155 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~214
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 155 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 Jerusalem's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jerusalem's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jerusalem
Each reading below is measured for Jerusalem itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredJerusalem 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
MeasuredJerusalem 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 Jerusalem is in
Jerusalem sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Jerusalem's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monroe County.
What Grows in Jerusalem
Every plant below cleared Jerusalem'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 Jerusalem?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Jerusalem
Spotted lanternfly documented 26 miles from Jerusalem, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Jerusalem
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jerusalem. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WILSON CARRY OUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- LOADING ZONE #8Underground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- AT&TUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- BEALLSVILLE HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- C & R STATION LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- WEST END AUTO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- CONVENIENT FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- BARKER'S USED CARSBrownfields · 3.2 mi
- TETLP - VALVE SITE LNS 10-15-25 MONROE COUNTYBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- DOMINION - WOODSFIELD ODOR STABrownfields · 4.0 mi
- VILLAGE MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- MONROE COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Jerusalem'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 Jerusalem.
Total Sites
60
within ~10 miles of Jerusalem
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Jerusalem
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jerusalem
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Jerusalem, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 37 sites within ~10 miles of Jerusalem. 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 Jerusalem
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 Jerusalem average
Your land is one point inside Jerusalem
Everything above resolves to Jerusalem as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 155 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 Jerusalem Average
Jerusalem Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Jerusalem
- ●One soil character for all of Jerusalem
- ●Frost dates read at Jerusalem's scale: Apr 7 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jerusalem's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Jerusalem
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Jerusalem, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Jerusalem averages can't show:
We read public map data around Jerusalem — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Jerusalem average
How we know this about Jerusalem
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 Jerusalem’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 Jerusalem
When does frost risk typically end in Jerusalem?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jerusalem typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Jerusalem?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jerusalem typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jerusalem?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jerusalem sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 24, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jerusalem?
The federal record around Jerusalem shows 60 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (37), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.3 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 Jerusalem?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Jerusalem's scale — its 6b band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jerusalem'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 Jerusalem’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Jerusalem's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 155 acres it covers and 60 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jerusalem's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Jerusalem's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Nov 7 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 60 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jerusalem, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jerusalem's boundary and the 155 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 Jerusalem's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Jerusalemlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Jerusalem's 155 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Monroe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Monroe 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 Monroe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jerusalem's 155 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jerusalem you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 155 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.3 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 Jerusalem-wide figureread your own land →