New Lexington, 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.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Lexington, 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 Lexington 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 New Lexington — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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New Lexington — the short answer
New Lexington, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 198 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~198
- 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 6a is New Lexington's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Lexington's 198-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Lexington
Each reading below is measured for New Lexington itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Lexington runs about 198 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
MeasuredNew Lexington 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 New Lexington is in
New Lexington sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Lexington's own centroid rather than borrowed from Perry County.
What Grows in New Lexington
Every plant below cleared New Lexington's own zone 6a and its 198-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Lexington?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — 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 New Lexington
Spotted lanternfly documented 26 miles from New Lexington, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Lexington
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Lexington. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PACINO'S MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- NEW LEXINGTON SERVICE-FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- CIRCLE K #5355Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #3499Brownfields · 1100 ft
- BECKETT'S VIDEOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- WOLF'S HUFF & PUFFUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- KROGER 0313-016Brownfields · 1700 ft
- OHIO BELL TELEPHONE CO. L36813Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- SNIDER-FLAUTT LUMBER COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- SNT KAR KAREBrownfields · 1800 ft
- KROGER N-313Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- RAY'S BODY SHOPBrownfields · 1900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Lexington'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 Lexington.
Total Sites
127
within ~10 miles of New Lexington
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
10 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Lexington
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Lexington
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Lexington, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of New Lexington — Superfund (10 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in New Lexington
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 New Lexington average
Your land is one point inside New Lexington
Everything above resolves to New Lexington 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 Lexington Average
New Lexington Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across New Lexington
- ●One soil character for all of New Lexington
- ●Frost dates read at New Lexington's scale: Apr 15 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Lexington's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Lexington
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Lexington, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Lexington averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Lexington — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Lexington average
How we know this about New Lexington
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 Lexington’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 Lexington
When does frost risk typically end in New Lexington?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Lexington typically lands around Apr 15, 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 6.
When is the first frost in New Lexington?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Lexington typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 198 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Lexington?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Lexington sees about 198 frost-free days — roughly Apr 15 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 6 to Oct 16, about 163 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Lexington?
The federal record around New Lexington is a meaningful one — 127 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (66), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 New Lexington?
From about Sep 30 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 Oct 30 (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 Oct 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Lexington's scale — its 6a band and its 198-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Lexington'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 Lexington’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Lexington's own scale — its own ~198-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,246 acres it covers and 127 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Lexington's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Lexington's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 15 and Oct 30 and the ~198-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 127 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Lexington, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Lexington's boundary and the 1,246 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~198-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Lexington's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of New Lexingtonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Lexington's 1,246 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Perry County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Perry 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 Perry County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Lexington's 1,246 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Lexington you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,246 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 New Lexington-wide figureread your own land →
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