Kimbolton, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Kimbolton, 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 Kimbolton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kimbolton — the short answer
Kimbolton, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 207 days between hard freezes, across 319 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~207
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 319 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 Kimbolton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kimbolton's 207-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kimbolton
Each reading below is measured for Kimbolton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKimbolton runs about 207 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
MeasuredKimbolton 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 Kimbolton is in
Kimbolton sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kimbolton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Guernsey County.
What Grows in Kimbolton
Every plant below cleared Kimbolton's own zone 6b and its 207-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kimbolton?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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 Kimbolton
Spotted lanternfly documented 19 miles from Kimbolton, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Kimbolton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kimbolton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GARY'S BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- ODOT - N SALEM OUTPOSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- KOUNTRY KORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- SCHEETZ MARKETING INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- OHIO DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION DIST 5Brownfields · 2.9 mi
- RIVER VIEW HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- DONALD C COENUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORP GUERNSEY COMPRESSORBrownfields · 4.8 mi
- CAMBRIDGE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- EAGLE AUTO/TRUCK PLAZAUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- JAROME STARN RESIDENCEBrownfields · 6.4 mi
- ED'S STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kimbolton'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 Kimbolton.
Total Sites
199
within ~10 miles of Kimbolton
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kimbolton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kimbolton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kimbolton, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 16 sites within ~10 miles of Kimbolton. 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 Kimbolton
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 Kimbolton average
Your land is one point inside Kimbolton
Everything above resolves to Kimbolton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 319 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 Kimbolton Average
Kimbolton Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Kimbolton
- ●One soil character for all of Kimbolton
- ●Frost dates read at Kimbolton's scale: Apr 10 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kimbolton's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kimbolton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kimbolton, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kimbolton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kimbolton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kimbolton average
How we know this about Kimbolton
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 Kimbolton’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 Kimbolton
When does frost risk typically end in Kimbolton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kimbolton typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Kimbolton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kimbolton typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 207 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kimbolton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kimbolton sees about 207 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 20, about 172 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kimbolton?
The federal record around Kimbolton is a meaningful one — 199 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (107), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Kimbolton?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kimbolton's scale — its 6b band and its 207-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kimbolton'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 Kimbolton’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Kimbolton's own scale — its own ~207-day season between 28°F freezes, the 319 acres it covers and 199 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kimbolton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kimbolton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Nov 3 and the ~207-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 199 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kimbolton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kimbolton's boundary and the 319 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~207-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kimbolton's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Kimboltonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kimbolton's 319 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Guernsey County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Guernsey 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 Guernsey County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kimbolton's 319 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kimbolton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 319 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Kimbolton-wide figureread your own land →
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