Maplewood Park, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Maplewood 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 Maplewood Park 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 Maplewood Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Maplewood Park — the short answer
Maplewood Park, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 196 days between hard freezes, across 505 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~196
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 505 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 6a is Maplewood Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Maplewood Park's 196-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Maplewood Park
Each reading below is measured for Maplewood Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMaplewood Park runs about 196 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMaplewood Park sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Maplewood Park is in
Maplewood Park sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Maplewood Park's own centroid rather than borrowed from Trumbull County.
What Grows in Maplewood Park
Every plant below cleared Maplewood Park's own zone 6a and its 196-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Maplewood 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 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Maplewood Park
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Maplewood Park, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Maplewood Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Maplewood Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SOUTH LIFT STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- HUBBARD BOARD OF EDUCATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- B & T CALIBER CAR CAREBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- HUBBARD SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- BATROUN INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- CVS PHARMACY 3044Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- SPEEDWAY 3377Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- VACANT LOT/FORMER HARDEE'SUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #3738Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- SPEEDWAY #3377Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CIRCLE K #5428Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- HUBBARD AMOCO *Brownfields · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Maplewood 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 Maplewood Park.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Maplewood Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Maplewood Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Maplewood Park, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 95 sites within ~10 miles of Maplewood Park. 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.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Maplewood 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 Maplewood Park average
Your land is one point inside Maplewood Park
Everything above resolves to Maplewood Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 505 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 Maplewood Park Average
Maplewood Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Maplewood Park
- ●One soil character for all of Maplewood Park
- ●Frost dates read at Maplewood Park's scale: Apr 19 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Maplewood Park's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Maplewood Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Maplewood Park, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Maplewood Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Maplewood Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Maplewood Park average
How we know this about Maplewood 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 Maplewood 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 Maplewood Park
When does frost risk typically end in Maplewood Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Maplewood Park typically lands around Apr 19, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Maplewood Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Maplewood Park typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 196 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Maplewood Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Maplewood Park sees about 196 frost-free days — roughly Apr 19 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 10 to Oct 18, about 161 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Maplewood Park?
The federal record around Maplewood Park runs heavier than most — 1,233 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (634), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Maplewood Park?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Maplewood Park's scale — its 6a band and its 196-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Maplewood 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 Maplewood Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Maplewood Park's own scale — its own ~196-day season between 28°F freezes, the 505 acres it covers and 1,233 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Maplewood Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Maplewood Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 19 and Nov 1 and the ~196-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,233 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Maplewood Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Maplewood Park's boundary and the 505 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~196-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Maplewood Park's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Maplewood Parklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Maplewood Park's 505 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Trumbull County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Trumbull 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 Trumbull County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Maplewood Park's 505 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Maplewood 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 505 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Maplewood Park-wide figureread your own land →