Matamoras (New Matamoras), Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Matamoras (New Matamoras), no two yards are alike.
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Matamoras (New Matamoras) — the short answer
Matamoras (New Matamoras), Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 206 days between hard freezes, across 223 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- 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 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~206
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 223 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 Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s 206-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Matamoras (New Matamoras)
Each reading below is measured for Matamoras (New Matamoras) itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMatamoras (New Matamoras) runs about 206 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
MeasuredMatamoras (New Matamoras) 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 Matamoras (New Matamoras) is in
Matamoras (New Matamoras) sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s own centroid rather than borrowed from Washington County.
What Grows in Matamoras (New Matamoras)
Every plant below cleared Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s own zone 6b and its 206-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Matamoras (New Matamoras)?
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 1 — 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 Matamoras (New Matamoras)
Survey cells within 31 miles of Matamoras (New Matamoras) checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 41 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Matamoras (New Matamoras)
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Matamoras (New Matamoras). Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #12327Brownfields · 700 ft
- SAM KIDD TOWINGBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- QUALAWASH HOLDINGS, LLCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- UNION CARBIDE CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- FRIENDLY PSD - SEWER PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- BROWN'S ASHLANDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- RT 2 AUTO PARTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- CHEMICAL LEAMAN TANK LINES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- MOUNTAINEER TANK LINES LLCBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- SUTTLES TRUCK LEASING, INC.Brownfields · 2.1 mi
- Tyl-0066Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- MPM SILICONES LLCToxics Release Inventory · 2.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Matamoras (New Matamoras)'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 Matamoras (New Matamoras).
Total Sites
128
within ~10 miles of Matamoras (New Matamoras)
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Matamoras (New Matamoras)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Matamoras (New Matamoras)
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Matamoras (New Matamoras), Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 8 sites within ~10 miles of Matamoras (New Matamoras). 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 Matamoras (New Matamoras)
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 Matamoras (New Matamoras)
Everything above resolves to Matamoras (New Matamoras) as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 223 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 Matamoras (New Matamoras) Average
Matamoras (New Matamoras) Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Matamoras (New Matamoras)
- ●One soil character for all of Matamoras (New Matamoras)
- ●Frost dates read at Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s scale: Apr 9 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Matamoras (New Matamoras)
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Three things about your lot that Matamoras (New Matamoras) averages can't show:
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How we know this about Matamoras (New Matamoras)
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 Matamoras (New Matamoras)’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 Matamoras (New Matamoras)
When does frost risk typically end in Matamoras (New Matamoras)?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Matamoras (New Matamoras) 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 Matamoras (New Matamoras)?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Matamoras (New Matamoras) 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 206 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Matamoras (New Matamoras)?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Matamoras (New Matamoras) sees about 206 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 18, about 171 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Matamoras (New Matamoras)?
The federal record around Matamoras (New Matamoras) is a meaningful one — 128 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (64), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Matamoras (New Matamoras)?
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 Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s scale — its 6b band and its 206-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Matamoras (New Matamoras)'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 Matamoras (New Matamoras)’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s own scale — its own ~206-day season between 28°F freezes, the 223 acres it covers and 128 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Nov 1 and the ~206-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 128 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Matamoras (New Matamoras), the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s boundary and the 223 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~206-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Matamoras (New Matamoras) checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s 223 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Washington County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Washington 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 Washington County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Matamoras (New Matamoras)'s 223 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Matamoras (New Matamoras) you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 223 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Matamoras (New Matamoras)-wide figureread your own land →
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