Marysville, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Marysville, 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 Marysville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Marysville — the short answer
Marysville, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 10K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 10K 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 Marysville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Marysville's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Marysville
Each reading below is measured for Marysville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMarysville runs about 208 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
MeasuredMarysville 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 Marysville is in
Marysville sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Marysville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Union County.
What Grows in Marysville
Every plant below cleared Marysville's own zone 6a and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Marysville?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Marysville
Spotted lanternfly documented 22 miles from Marysville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Marysville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Marysville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ELJER PARKBrownfields · 1900 ft
- ODOT MARYSVILLE GARAGEBrownfields · 1900 ft
- ODOT UNION COUNTY GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- 270 DUNHAM STUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- PENSKE TRUCK LEASING CO., L.P.Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- PICKLESIMER TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- UNION COUNTY AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #12274Brownfields · 2500 ft
- ROBERT MCWHERTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- PRECISION COATING SYSTEMS, INC. (0180010167)Brownfields · 2600 ft
- GI PLASTEK DEC RITE PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 0.5 mi
- MEMORIAL HOSPITALUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Marysville'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 Marysville.
Total Sites
169
within ~10 miles of Marysville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Marysville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Marysville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Marysville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Marysville — Superfund (5 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (14 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Marysville
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 Marysville average
Your land is one point inside Marysville
Everything above resolves to Marysville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 10K 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 city 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 Marysville Average
Marysville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Marysville
- ●One soil character for all of Marysville
- ●Frost dates read at Marysville's scale: Apr 9 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Marysville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Marysville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Marysville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Marysville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Marysville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Marysville average
How we know this about Marysville
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Marysville’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Marysville
When does frost risk typically end in Marysville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Marysville typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Marysville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Marysville typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Marysville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Marysville sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 20, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Marysville?
The federal record around Marysville is a meaningful one — 169 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (89), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.4 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 Marysville?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Marysville's scale — its 6a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Marysville'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 Marysville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Marysville's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 10,417 acres it covers and 169 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Marysville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Marysville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Nov 3 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 169 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Marysville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Marysville's boundary and the 10,417 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Marysville's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Marysvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Marysville's 10,417 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Union County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Union 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 Union County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Marysville's 10,417 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Marysville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 10,417 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 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 Marysville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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