Kinsman Center, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Kinsman Center, 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 Kinsman Center lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kinsman Center — the short answer
Kinsman Center, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 196 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~196
- 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 Kinsman Center's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kinsman Center's 196-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kinsman Center
Each reading below is measured for Kinsman Center itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKinsman Center runs about 196 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredKinsman Center 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 Kinsman Center is in
Kinsman Center sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kinsman Center's own centroid rather than borrowed from Trumbull County.
What Grows in Kinsman Center
Every plant below cleared Kinsman Center's own zone 6a and its 196-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kinsman Center?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Kinsman Center
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Kinsman Center, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Kinsman Center
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kinsman Center. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #9687Brownfields · 650 ft
- MAIN STREET CONVENIENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- A G BIRRELL COBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- US ARMY - COE PITTSBURGH DISTRICTSuperfund · 0.8 mi
- KINSMAN NET CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- BADGER MIDDLE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- TERRY HARMON MOTORS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- KINSMAN TOWNSHIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HINE MOTORS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- OHIO EDISON CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- BADGER HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- KRAFT FOODS NORTH AMERICA, INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kinsman Center'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 Kinsman Center.
Total Sites
81
within ~10 miles of Kinsman Center
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kinsman Center
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kinsman Center
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kinsman Center, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 5 sites within ~10 miles of Kinsman Center. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Kinsman Center
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 Kinsman Center average
Your land is one point inside Kinsman Center
Everything above resolves to Kinsman Center 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 Kinsman Center Average
Kinsman Center Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Kinsman Center
- ●One soil character for all of Kinsman Center
- ●Frost dates read at Kinsman Center's scale: Apr 19 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kinsman Center's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kinsman Center
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kinsman Center, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kinsman Center averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kinsman Center — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kinsman Center average
How we know this about Kinsman Center
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 Kinsman Center’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 Kinsman Center
When does frost risk typically end in Kinsman Center?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kinsman Center typically lands around Apr 19, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Kinsman Center?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kinsman Center typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 196 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kinsman Center?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kinsman Center sees about 196 frost-free days — roughly Apr 19 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 10 to Oct 18, about 161 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kinsman Center?
The federal record around Kinsman Center is a meaningful one — 81 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (45), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Kinsman Center?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kinsman Center's scale — its 6a band and its 196-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kinsman Center'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 Kinsman Center’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Kinsman Center's own scale — its own ~196-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,407 acres it covers and 81 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kinsman Center's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kinsman Center's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 19 and Nov 1 and the ~196-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 81 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kinsman Center, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kinsman Center's boundary and the 1,407 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~196-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kinsman Center's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Kinsman Centerlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kinsman Center's 1,407 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Trumbull County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Trumbull 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 Trumbull County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kinsman Center's 1,407 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kinsman Center you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,407 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Kinsman Center-wide figureread your own land →