Negley, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Negley, 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 Negley lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Negley — the short answer
Negley, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 200 days between hard freezes, across 573 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 17
- 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
- ~200
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 573 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 Negley's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Negley's 200-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Negley
Each reading below is measured for Negley itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNegley runs about 200 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
MeasuredNegley 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 Negley is in
Negley sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Negley's own centroid rather than borrowed from Columbiana County.
What Grows in Negley
Every plant below cleared Negley's own zone 6b and its 200-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Negley?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 17 (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 Negley
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Negley, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Negley
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Negley. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MURPHY SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- LAKEWOOD CHEMICAL & SUPPLY COToxics Release Inventory · 1700 ft
- FORMER KELVINGTON STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- GORBY''''S GROCERY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- EAST PALESTINE COUNTRY CLUB, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- NEGLEY SHOPS Y&S RAILWAY CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- BLUM TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- KYLE PALLET CO., INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- IND WASTE DARLINGTONBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- ASTRA RENTAL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- ECOLOGICAL SERVICES INCBrownfields · 2.5 mi
- CITY OF EAST PALESTINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Negley'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 Negley.
Total Sites
241
within ~10 miles of Negley
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Negley
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Negley
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Negley, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of Negley. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Negley
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 Negley
Everything above resolves to Negley as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 573 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 Negley Average
Negley Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Negley
- ●One soil character for all of Negley
- ●Frost dates read at Negley's scale: Apr 17 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Negley's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Negley
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Negley, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Negley averages can't show:
We read public map data around Negley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Negley average
How we know this about Negley
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 Negley’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 Negley
When does frost risk typically end in Negley?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Negley typically lands around Apr 17, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Negley?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Negley 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 200 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Negley?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Negley sees about 200 frost-free days — roughly Apr 17 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 8 to Oct 20, about 165 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Negley?
The federal record around Negley is a meaningful one — 241 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (132), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Negley?
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 Negley's scale — its 6b band and its 200-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Negley'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 Negley’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Negley's own scale — its own ~200-day season between 28°F freezes, the 573 acres it covers and 241 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Negley's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Negley's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 17 and Nov 3 and the ~200-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 241 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Negley, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Negley's boundary and the 573 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~200-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Negley's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Negleylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Negley's 573 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Columbiana County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Columbiana 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 Columbiana County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Negley's 573 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Negley you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 573 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Negley-wide figureread your own land →
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