New Pittsburg, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 New Pittsburg, 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 Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg — the short answer
New Pittsburg, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 195 days between hard freezes, across 873 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~195
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 873 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 Pittsburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Pittsburg's 195-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Pittsburg
Each reading below is measured for New Pittsburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Pittsburg runs about 195 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 Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg is in
New Pittsburg sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Pittsburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wayne County.
What Grows in New Pittsburg
Every plant below cleared New Pittsburg's own zone 6a and its 195-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Pittsburg?
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 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 Oct 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around New Pittsburg
Survey cells within 31 miles of New Pittsburg checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 32 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Pittsburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Pittsburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NEW PITTSBURG MOTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- BEC CORP.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- NORTHWESTERN LOCAL SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- HILLSDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- HILLSDALE MIDDLE & JUNIOR HIGHUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- JEROMESVILLE ELEVATORUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- WOOSTER MOTOR WAYS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- MUFFLERS & MOREBrownfields · 6.0 mi
- WN-T6Nitrate · 6.2 mi
- TRICOR METALSToxics Release Inventory · 6.2 mi
- TRICOR METALSBrownfields · 6.2 mi
- POLK ELEMUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Pittsburg'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 Pittsburg.
Total Sites
255
within ~10 miles of New Pittsburg
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Pittsburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Pittsburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Pittsburg, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 29 sites within ~10 miles of New Pittsburg. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 New Pittsburg
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 Pittsburg average
Your land is one point inside New Pittsburg
Everything above resolves to New Pittsburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 873 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 Pittsburg Average
New Pittsburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across New Pittsburg
- ●One soil character for all of New Pittsburg
- ●Frost dates read at New Pittsburg's scale: Apr 17 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Pittsburg's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Pittsburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Pittsburg, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Pittsburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Pittsburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Pittsburg average
How we know this about New Pittsburg
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 Pittsburg’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 Pittsburg
When does frost risk typically end in New Pittsburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Pittsburg 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 New Pittsburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Pittsburg typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 195 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Pittsburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Pittsburg sees about 195 frost-free days — roughly Apr 17 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 8 to Oct 15, about 160 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Pittsburg?
The federal record around New Pittsburg is a meaningful one — 255 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (116), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Pittsburg?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Pittsburg's scale — its 6a band and its 195-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Pittsburg'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 Pittsburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Pittsburg's own scale — its own ~195-day season between 28°F freezes, the 873 acres it covers and 255 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Pittsburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Pittsburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 17 and Oct 29 and the ~195-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 255 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Pittsburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Pittsburg's boundary and the 873 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~195-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Pittsburg's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around New Pittsburg 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 New Pittsburg's 873 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wayne County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wayne 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 Wayne County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Pittsburg's 873 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Pittsburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 873 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Pittsburg-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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