Lincoln Heights, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lincoln Heights, 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 Lincoln Heights lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lincoln Heights — the short answer
Lincoln Heights, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 476 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 476 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 Lincoln Heights's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lincoln Heights's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lincoln Heights
Each reading below is measured for Lincoln Heights itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLincoln Heights runs about 221 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
MeasuredLincoln Heights 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 Lincoln Heights is in
Lincoln Heights sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lincoln Heights's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hamilton County.
What Grows in Lincoln Heights
Every plant below cleared Lincoln Heights's own zone 6b and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lincoln Heights?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — 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 Lincoln Heights
Spotted lanternfly documented 8 miles from Lincoln Heights, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lincoln Heights
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lincoln Heights. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VILLAGE OF LINCOLN HEIGHTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- CONNECTOR INDUSTRIES OF AMERICASuperfund · 1700 ft
- 600 BLOCK NORTH WAYNE AVENUESuperfund · 1700 ft
- WENDY'S INTERNATIONALUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- PEBBLE CREK PRODUCTS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- JETCOM, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- TRI-STAR INDUSTRIAL CLEANINGBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- ORPHAN TANKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- PILOT CHEMICAL COMPANY OF OHIO LOCKLAND PLANTBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- PILOT CHEMICAL COMPANY OF OHIO LOCKLAND PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- TENNESSEE CARTAGE CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lincoln Heights'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 Lincoln Heights.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lincoln Heights
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lincoln Heights
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lincoln Heights, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lincoln Heights — Toxics Release Inventory (356 sites) and Superfund (39 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Lincoln Heights
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 Lincoln Heights
Everything above resolves to Lincoln Heights as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 476 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 Lincoln Heights Average
Lincoln Heights Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lincoln Heights
- ●One soil character for all of Lincoln Heights
- ●Frost dates read at Lincoln Heights's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lincoln Heights's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lincoln Heights
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lincoln Heights, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lincoln Heights averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lincoln Heights — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Lincoln Heights
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 Lincoln Heights’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 Lincoln Heights
When does frost risk typically end in Lincoln Heights?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lincoln Heights typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Lincoln Heights?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lincoln Heights typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lincoln Heights?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lincoln Heights sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 25, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lincoln Heights?
The federal record around Lincoln Heights runs heavier than most — 3,076 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,554), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lincoln Heights?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lincoln Heights's scale — its 6b band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lincoln Heights'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 Lincoln Heights’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lincoln Heights's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 476 acres it covers and 3,076 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lincoln Heights's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lincoln Heights's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 8 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 3,076 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lincoln Heights, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lincoln Heights's boundary and the 476 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lincoln Heights's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lincoln Heightslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lincoln Heights's 476 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hamilton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hamilton 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 Hamilton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lincoln Heights's 476 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lincoln Heights you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 476 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Lincoln Heights-wide figureread your own land →
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