Lakemore, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lakemore, 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 Lakemore lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lakemore — the short answer
Lakemore, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 929 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 929 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 Lakemore's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lakemore's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lakemore
Each reading below is measured for Lakemore itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLakemore runs about 211 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
MeasuredLakemore 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 Lakemore is in
Lakemore sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lakemore's own centroid rather than borrowed from Summit County.
What Grows in Lakemore
Every plant below cleared Lakemore's own zone 6b and its 211-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lakemore?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Lakemore
Spotted lanternfly documented 12 miles from Lakemore, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lakemore
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lakemore. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY #1670Brownfields · 900 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #2204Brownfields · 1300 ft
- LAND BANKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- SHERWIN-WILLIAMS #1071Brownfields · 1700 ft
- SPRINGFIELD LOCAL SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- SPRINGFIELD BAND AND FOOTBALL-SPRINGFIELD LOCAL SCHOOLSBrownfields · 2200 ft
- GetGo #3029Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #13569Brownfields · 2200 ft
- ELLET NEON SALES AND SERVICEBrownfields · 2400 ft
- SAM WINER MOTORS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- DALE P. MURPHYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- DUNKLE BODY & FRAMEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lakemore'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 Lakemore.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lakemore
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lakemore
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lakemore, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lakemore — Toxics Release Inventory (155 sites) and Superfund (24 sites). 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Lakemore
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 Lakemore average
Your land is one point inside Lakemore
Everything above resolves to Lakemore as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 929 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 Lakemore Average
Lakemore Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lakemore
- ●One soil character for all of Lakemore
- ●Frost dates read at Lakemore's scale: Apr 12 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lakemore's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lakemore
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lakemore, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lakemore averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lakemore — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lakemore average
How we know this about Lakemore
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 Lakemore’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 Lakemore
When does frost risk typically end in Lakemore?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lakemore typically lands around Apr 12, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Lakemore?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lakemore typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lakemore?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lakemore sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 26, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lakemore?
The federal record around Lakemore is a meaningful one — 1,854 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (919), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Lakemore?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lakemore's scale — its 6b band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lakemore'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 Lakemore’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lakemore's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 929 acres it covers and 1,854 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lakemore's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lakemore's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Nov 9 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,854 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lakemore, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lakemore's boundary and the 929 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lakemore's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lakemorelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lakemore's 929 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Summit County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Summit 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 Summit County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lakemore's 929 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lakemore you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 929 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Lakemore-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioLakemore sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.
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