Pheasant Run, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Pheasant Run, 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 Pheasant Run 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 Pheasant Run — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Pheasant Run — the short answer
Pheasant Run, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 210 days between hard freezes, across 598 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 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~210
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 598 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 Pheasant Run's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pheasant Run's 210-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pheasant Run
Each reading below is measured for Pheasant Run itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPheasant Run runs about 210 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
MeasuredPheasant Run 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 Pheasant Run is in
Pheasant Run sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pheasant Run's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lorain County.
What Grows in Pheasant Run
Every plant below cleared Pheasant Run's own zone 6b and its 210-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pheasant Run?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Pheasant Run
Spotted lanternfly documented 10 miles from Pheasant Run, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pheasant Run
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pheasant Run. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HENRY COToxics Release Inventory · 1.6 mi
- INSERVCO INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.7 mi
- ALLTEL OHIO, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- VERANTIS CORPORATIONToxics Release Inventory · 2.0 mi
- VERANTIS CORPORATIONBrownfields · 2.0 mi
- BILL'S CITGO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- CONVENIENT FOOD MART #747Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- LAGRANGE SCREW PRODUCTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- KEYSTONE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- CONRAD FARMS LLCCAFO · 2.7 mi
- FRIENDSHIP #95Underground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #11285Brownfields · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pheasant Run'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 Pheasant Run.
Total Sites
220
within ~10 miles of Pheasant Run
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pheasant Run
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pheasant Run
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pheasant Run, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pheasant Run — Toxics Release Inventory (22 sites) and Superfund (3 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 Pheasant Run
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 Pheasant Run average
Your land is one point inside Pheasant Run
Everything above resolves to Pheasant Run as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 598 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 Pheasant Run Average
Pheasant Run Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Pheasant Run
- ●One soil character for all of Pheasant Run
- ●Frost dates read at Pheasant Run's scale: Apr 10 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pheasant Run's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pheasant Run
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pheasant Run, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pheasant Run averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pheasant Run — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pheasant Run average
How we know this about Pheasant Run
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 Pheasant Run’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 Pheasant Run
When does frost risk typically end in Pheasant Run?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pheasant Run 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 Pheasant Run?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pheasant Run typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 210 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pheasant Run?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pheasant Run sees about 210 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 23, about 175 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pheasant Run?
The federal record around Pheasant Run is a meaningful one — 220 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (113), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.6 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 Pheasant Run?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pheasant Run's scale — its 6b band and its 210-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pheasant Run'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 Pheasant Run’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pheasant Run's own scale — its own ~210-day season between 28°F freezes, the 598 acres it covers and 220 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pheasant Run's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pheasant Run's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Nov 6 and the ~210-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 220 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pheasant Run, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pheasant Run's boundary and the 598 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~210-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pheasant Run's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Pheasant Runlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pheasant Run's 598 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lorain County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lorain 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 Lorain County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pheasant Run's 598 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pheasant Run you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 598 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.6 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 Pheasant Run-wide figureread your own land →
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