Lake Waynoka, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Lake Waynoka, 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 Lake Waynoka 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 Lake Waynoka — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lake Waynoka — the short answer
Lake Waynoka, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- 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
- ~214
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Lake Waynoka's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lake Waynoka's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lake Waynoka
Each reading below is measured for Lake Waynoka itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLake Waynoka 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
MeasuredLake Waynoka 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 Lake Waynoka is in
Lake Waynoka sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lake Waynoka's own centroid rather than borrowed from Brown County.
What Grows in Lake Waynoka
Every plant below cleared Lake Waynoka'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 Lake Waynoka?
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 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (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 Lake Waynoka
Survey cells within 31 miles of Lake Waynoka checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 39 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lake Waynoka
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lake Waynoka. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WAYNOKA PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- THE OUTPOSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- ARNHEIM CARRY OUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- SARDINIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- FRP INCToxics Release Inventory · 3.3 mi
- TRI-STATE CHEMICAL COMPANYSuperfund · 3.3 mi
- MACON 1ST STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- TANKERS TRAVEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- SOUTHERN STATE - SOUTH CAMPUSUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #7447Brownfields · 4.6 mi
- SARDINIA FUEL MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- BROWN COUNTY ASPHALT INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lake Waynoka'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 Lake Waynoka.
Total Sites
102
within ~10 miles of Lake Waynoka
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lake Waynoka
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lake Waynoka
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lake Waynoka, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lake Waynoka — PFAS (5 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (75 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.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Lake Waynoka
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 Lake Waynoka average
Your land is one point inside Lake Waynoka
Everything above resolves to Lake Waynoka as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Lake Waynoka Average
Lake Waynoka Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lake Waynoka
- ●One soil character for all of Lake Waynoka
- ●Frost dates read at Lake Waynoka's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lake Waynoka's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lake Waynoka
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lake Waynoka, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lake Waynoka averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lake Waynoka — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lake Waynoka average
How we know this about Lake Waynoka
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 Lake Waynoka’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 Lake Waynoka
When does frost risk typically end in Lake Waynoka?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Waynoka typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Lake Waynoka?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Waynoka 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 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lake Waynoka?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lake Waynoka sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 20, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lake Waynoka?
The federal record around Lake Waynoka is a meaningful one — 102 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (75), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Lake Waynoka?
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 Lake Waynoka's scale — its 6b band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lake Waynoka'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 Lake Waynoka’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lake Waynoka's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,732 acres it covers and 102 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lake Waynoka's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lake Waynoka's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 3 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 102 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lake Waynoka, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lake Waynoka's boundary and the 2,732 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 Lake Waynoka's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Lake Waynoka checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lake Waynoka's 2,732 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Brown County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Brown 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 Brown County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lake Waynoka's 2,732 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lake Waynoka you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,732 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Lake Waynoka-wide figureread your own land →
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