Newton Falls, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Newton Falls, 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 Newton Falls lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Newton Falls — the short answer
Newton Falls, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 20
- 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
- ~192
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Newton Falls's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Newton Falls's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Newton Falls
Each reading below is measured for Newton Falls itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNewton Falls runs about 192 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
MeasuredNewton Falls 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 Newton Falls is in
Newton Falls sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Newton Falls's own centroid rather than borrowed from Trumbull County.
What Grows in Newton Falls
Every plant below cleared Newton Falls's own zone 6a and its 192-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Newton Falls?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 20 (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. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Newton Falls
Spotted lanternfly documented 8 miles from Newton Falls, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Newton Falls
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Newton Falls. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WASTEWATER PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- MAINTENANCE BUILDINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- KWIK FILL #S229/274Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- ORPHAN TANKUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- BORDAS TOWINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- TED'S FLOOR COVERINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- BLISS MANUFACTURINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- CSX TRANSPORTATION INCBrownfields · 1900 ft
- R/C SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- NEISS HOME OIL COMPANY LTDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- CLOSED STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- EVERGREEN BATTERY RECYCLING LLCBrownfields · 2500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Newton Falls'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 Newton Falls.
Total Sites
440
within ~10 miles of Newton Falls
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
7 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Newton Falls
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Newton Falls
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Newton Falls, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Newton Falls — Toxics Release Inventory (48 sites) and Superfund (7 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 Newton Falls
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 Newton Falls average
Your land is one point inside Newton Falls
Everything above resolves to Newton Falls as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Newton Falls Average
Newton Falls Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Newton Falls
- ●One soil character for all of Newton Falls
- ●Frost dates read at Newton Falls's scale: Apr 20 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Newton Falls's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Newton Falls
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Newton Falls, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Newton Falls averages can't show:
We read public map data around Newton Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Newton Falls average
How we know this about Newton Falls
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 Newton Falls’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 Newton Falls
When does frost risk typically end in Newton Falls?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Newton Falls typically lands around Apr 20, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Newton Falls?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Newton Falls 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 192 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Newton Falls?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Newton Falls sees about 192 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Oct 15, about 157 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Newton Falls?
The federal record around Newton Falls is a meaningful one — 440 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (244), 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 Newton Falls?
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 Newton Falls's scale — its 6a band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Newton Falls'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 Newton Falls’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Newton Falls's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,891 acres it covers and 440 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Newton Falls's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Newton Falls's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Oct 29 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 440 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Newton Falls, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Newton Falls's boundary and the 1,891 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~192-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Newton Falls's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Newton Fallslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Newton Falls's 1,891 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Trumbull County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Trumbull 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 Trumbull County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Newton Falls's 1,891 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Newton Falls you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,891 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 Newton Falls-wide figureread your own land →