Kipton, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Kipton, 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 Kipton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kipton — the short answer
Kipton, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 206 days between hard freezes, across 282 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 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~206
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 282 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 Kipton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kipton's 206-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kipton
Each reading below is measured for Kipton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKipton runs about 206 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
MeasuredKipton 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 Kipton is in
Kipton sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kipton's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Lorain County is mostly Erie Drift Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Kipton
Every plant below cleared Kipton's own zone 6b and its 206-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kipton?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Kipton
Spotted lanternfly documented 11 miles from Kipton, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Kipton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kipton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FORMER SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- ANTHONY VALLETTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- BRILLS MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- GREEN CIRCLE GROWERS (0247101010)Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- ARNOCZKY'S LOCK STOCK & BARRELUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- HAROLD DALTONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- PAUL M. SQUIRES FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- OBERLIN WATER DEPARTMENTPFAS · 3.9 mi
- OBERLIN LEAKING USTSuperfund · 3.9 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #9791Brownfields · 4.0 mi
- MARGOT WEBER, TRUSTEEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- ORTNER AIRPORT LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kipton'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 Kipton.
Total Sites
226
within ~10 miles of Kipton
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kipton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kipton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kipton, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Kipton — PFAS (6 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (21 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Kipton
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Kipton
Everything above resolves to Kipton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 282 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 Kipton Average
Kipton Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Kipton
- ●One soil character for all of Kipton
- ●Frost dates read at Kipton's scale: Apr 14 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kipton's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kipton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kipton, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kipton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kipton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kipton average
How we know this about Kipton
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 Kipton’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 Kipton
When does frost risk typically end in Kipton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kipton 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 Kipton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kipton 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 206 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kipton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kipton sees about 206 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 23, about 171 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kipton?
The federal record around Kipton is a meaningful one — 226 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (132), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Kipton?
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 Kipton's scale — its 6b band and its 206-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kipton'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 Kipton’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Kipton's own scale — its own ~206-day season between 28°F freezes, the 282 acres it covers and 226 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kipton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kipton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Nov 6 and the ~206-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 226 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kipton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kipton's boundary and the 282 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~206-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Kipton sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Kiptonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kipton's 282 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lorain County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lorain 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 Lorain County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kipton's 282 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kipton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 282 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Kipton-wide figureread your own land →
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