New Concord, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — 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 New Concord, 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 New Concord lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Concord — the short answer
New Concord, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 207 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- 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
- ~207
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 New Concord's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Concord's 207-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Concord
Each reading below is measured for New Concord itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Concord runs about 207 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
MeasuredNew Concord 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 New Concord is in
New Concord sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Concord's own centroid rather than borrowed from Muskingum County.
What Grows in New Concord
Every plant below cleared New Concord's own zone 6b and its 207-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Concord?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (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 New Concord
Spotted lanternfly documented 8 miles from New Concord, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Concord
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Concord. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STARFIREUnderground Storage Tanks · 50 ft
- YOHOS CARWASHUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- DAIRY MART NO 7464Brownfields · 750 ft
- CIRCLE K #5351Underground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- FUEL MART #706Underground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITYBrownfields · 1100 ft
- GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- PHYSICAL PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #14820Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- GAR-CNG LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- GENE HARDYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- EAST MUSKINGUM LOCAL SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Concord'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 New Concord.
Total Sites
205
within ~10 miles of New Concord
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Concord
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Concord
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Concord, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of New Concord — Toxics Release Inventory (16 sites) and Superfund (3 sites). 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in New Concord
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 New Concord
Everything above resolves to New Concord as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 New Concord Average
New Concord Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across New Concord
- ●One soil character for all of New Concord
- ●Frost dates read at New Concord's scale: Apr 10 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Concord's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Concord
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Concord, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Concord averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Concord — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Concord average
How we know this about New Concord
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 New Concord’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 New Concord
When does frost risk typically end in New Concord?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Concord typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in New Concord?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Concord 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 207 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Concord?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Concord sees about 207 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 20, about 172 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Concord?
The federal record around New Concord is a meaningful one — 205 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (111), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 New Concord?
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 New Concord's scale — its 6b band and its 207-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Concord'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 New Concord’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Concord's own scale — its own ~207-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,157 acres it covers and 205 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Concord's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Concord's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Nov 3 and the ~207-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 205 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Concord, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Concord's boundary and the 1,157 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~207-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Concord's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of New Concordlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Concord's 1,157 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Muskingum County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Muskingum 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 Muskingum County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Concord's 1,157 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Concord you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,157 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 New Concord-wide figureread your own land →
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