Lincoln Village, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Village, 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 Village 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 Lincoln Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lincoln Village — the short answer
Lincoln Village, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~214
- 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 6b is Lincoln Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lincoln Village's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lincoln Village
Each reading below is measured for Lincoln Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLincoln Village 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
MeasuredLincoln Village 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 Village is in
Lincoln Village sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lincoln Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Franklin County.
What Grows in Lincoln Village
Every plant below cleared Lincoln Village'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 Lincoln Village?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — 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 Village
Spotted lanternfly documented 5 miles from Lincoln Village, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lincoln Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lincoln Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #7381Brownfields · 400 ft
- W.Broad SunocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- FORMER WAY LO STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- KELLIE AUTO PARTSBrownfields · 450 ft
- THORNTONS INC. #70Underground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #6949Brownfields · 700 ft
- SPEEDWAY #1174Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- STARVIN MARVIN 1174Brownfields · 950 ft
- GIANT EAGLE STORE #6519Brownfields · 1000 ft
- GetGo #3519Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- DOCTORS HOSPITALUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- DOCTORS HOSPITALBrownfields · 1700 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lincoln Village'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 Village.
Total Sites
2,263
within ~10 miles of Lincoln Village
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
13 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lincoln Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lincoln Village
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Lincoln Village
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 Lincoln Village average
Your land is one point inside Lincoln Village
Everything above resolves to Lincoln Village 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 Lincoln Village Average
Lincoln Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lincoln Village
- ●One soil character for all of Lincoln Village
- ●Frost dates read at Lincoln Village's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lincoln Village's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lincoln Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lincoln Village, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lincoln Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lincoln Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lincoln Village average
How we know this about Lincoln Village
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 Village’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 Village
When does frost risk typically end in Lincoln Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lincoln Village typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Lincoln Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lincoln Village typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lincoln Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lincoln Village sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 22, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lincoln Village?
The federal record around Lincoln Village is a meaningful one — 2,263 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,129), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lincoln Village?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lincoln Village's scale — its 6b band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lincoln Village'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 Village’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lincoln Village's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,168 acres it covers and 2,263 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lincoln Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lincoln Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 5 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,263 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lincoln Village, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lincoln Village's boundary and the 1,168 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 Lincoln Village's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lincoln Villagelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lincoln Village's 1,168 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Franklin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Franklin 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 Franklin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lincoln Village's 1,168 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lincoln Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,168 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Village-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioLincoln Village sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.
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