Loveland Park, 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.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Loveland Park, 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 Loveland Park lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Loveland Park — the short answer
Loveland Park, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 219 days between hard freezes, across 828 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~219
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 828 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 Loveland Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Loveland Park's 219-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Loveland Park
Each reading below is measured for Loveland Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLoveland Park runs about 219 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
MeasuredLoveland Park 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 Loveland Park is in
Loveland Park sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Loveland Park's own centroid rather than borrowed from Warren County.
What Grows in Loveland Park
Every plant below cleared Loveland Park's own zone 6b and its 219-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Loveland Park?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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 Loveland Park
Spotted lanternfly documented 18 miles from Loveland Park, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Loveland Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Loveland Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- UNITED DAIRY FARMERS #092Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- AMERISTOP FOOD MART #29064Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- BP OIL COBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- 3180 MONTGOMERY LOVELAND LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #6090Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY #524Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- COLLISION CARE CARSTAR OF KINGSBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- DEERFIELD TWP ADMIN BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CINCY TOOL RENTAL, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- MORRISON GREENHOUSE, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- WARREN COUNTY WATER & SEWER DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- H-22Nitrate · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Loveland Park'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 Loveland Park.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Loveland Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Loveland Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Loveland Park, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 128 sites within ~10 miles of Loveland Park. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Loveland Park
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 Loveland Park average
Your land is one point inside Loveland Park
Everything above resolves to Loveland Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 828 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 Loveland Park Average
Loveland Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Loveland Park
- ●One soil character for all of Loveland Park
- ●Frost dates read at Loveland Park's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Loveland Park's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Loveland Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Loveland Park, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Loveland Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Loveland Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Loveland Park average
How we know this about Loveland Park
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 Loveland Park’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 Loveland Park
When does frost risk typically end in Loveland Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Loveland Park typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Loveland Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Loveland Park typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 219 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Loveland Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Loveland Park sees about 219 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 24, about 184 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Loveland Park?
The federal record around Loveland Park runs heavier than most — 1,196 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (595), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Loveland Park?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Loveland Park's scale — its 6b band and its 219-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Loveland Park'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 Loveland Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Loveland Park's own scale — its own ~219-day season between 28°F freezes, the 828 acres it covers and 1,196 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Loveland Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Loveland Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 7 and the ~219-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,196 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Loveland Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Loveland Park's boundary and the 828 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~219-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Loveland Park's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Loveland Parklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Loveland Park's 828 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Warren County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Warren 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 Warren County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Loveland Park's 828 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Loveland Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 828 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Loveland Park-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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