New Riegel, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Riegel, 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 Riegel 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 Riegel — the short answer
New Riegel, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 128 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 128 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 Riegel's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Riegel's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Riegel
Each reading below is measured for New Riegel itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Riegel runs about 213 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 Riegel 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 Riegel is in
New Riegel sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Riegel's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Seneca County is mostly Huron/Erie Lake Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in New Riegel
Every plant below cleared New Riegel's own zone 6b and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Riegel?
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 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around New Riegel
Survey cells within 31 miles of New Riegel checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 37 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Riegel
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Riegel. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NEW RIEGEL GAS PLUSUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- NEW RIEGEL LOCAL SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- SE-20 GILLIG NR NEW RIEGELNitrate · 2.0 mi
- CLOUSE CONSTRUCTION CORPBrownfields · 3.4 mi
- AP 927Underground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- US 23 & 224 PLAZA INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- HOBBS BROTHERSSuperfund · 4.5 mi
- TIN LIZZY COLLISIONBrownfields · 4.7 mi
- SONI JUNCTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- ROUTE 53 SERVICE LLC (Clark)Underground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- SMITTY'S CUSTOM AUTOMOTIVEBrownfields · 5.2 mi
- CLOSED GAS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Riegel'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 Riegel.
Total Sites
287
within ~10 miles of New Riegel
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Riegel
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Riegel
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Riegel, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of New Riegel — Toxics Release Inventory (35 sites) and Superfund (6 sites). 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.
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 Riegel
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 Riegel average
Your land is one point inside New Riegel
Everything above resolves to New Riegel as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 128 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 Riegel Average
New Riegel Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across New Riegel
- ●One soil character for all of New Riegel
- ●Frost dates read at New Riegel's scale: Apr 8 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Riegel's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Riegel
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Riegel, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Riegel averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Riegel — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Riegel average
How we know this about New Riegel
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 Riegel’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 Riegel
When does frost risk typically end in New Riegel?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Riegel typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in New Riegel?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Riegel typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Riegel?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Riegel sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 24, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Riegel?
The federal record around New Riegel is a meaningful one — 287 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (144), 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 Riegel?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Riegel's scale — its 6b band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Riegel'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 Riegel’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Riegel's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 128 acres it covers and 287 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Riegel's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Riegel's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Nov 7 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 287 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Riegel, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Riegel's boundary and the 128 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- New Riegel sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around New Riegel 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 Riegel's 128 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Seneca County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Seneca 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 Seneca County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Riegel's 128 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Riegel you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 128 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 Riegel-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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