Pitsburg, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pitsburg, 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 Pitsburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pitsburg — the short answer
Pitsburg, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 108 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~209
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 108 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 Pitsburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pitsburg's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pitsburg
Each reading below is measured for Pitsburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPitsburg runs about 209 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
MeasuredPitsburg 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 Pitsburg is in
Pitsburg sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pitsburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Darke County.
What Grows in Pitsburg
Every plant below cleared Pitsburg's own zone 6a and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pitsburg?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Pitsburg
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pitsburg 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 Pitsburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pitsburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MONROE TWP GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- BIRDS CITGOBrownfields · 1400 ft
- BIRD'S SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- SARVER PLUMBING, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- STEPHENS LUMBER CO., INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- HENCY'S, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- S. S. SHUFF & SONS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- ARCANUM IRON & METALSuperfund · 3.3 mi
- ARCANUM QUICK STOP (SUNOCO)Underground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- FORMER SERVICE STATUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- KINCAID KLEENERSBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- TROUTWINE AUTO SALES, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pitsburg'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 Pitsburg.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pitsburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pitsburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pitsburg, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pitsburg — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (13 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Pitsburg
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 Pitsburg average
Your land is one point inside Pitsburg
Everything above resolves to Pitsburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 108 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 Pitsburg Average
Pitsburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Pitsburg
- ●One soil character for all of Pitsburg
- ●Frost dates read at Pitsburg's scale: Apr 7 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pitsburg's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pitsburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pitsburg, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pitsburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pitsburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pitsburg average
How we know this about Pitsburg
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 Pitsburg’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 Pitsburg
When does frost risk typically end in Pitsburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pitsburg typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Pitsburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pitsburg typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pitsburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pitsburg sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 19, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pitsburg?
The federal record around Pitsburg is a meaningful one — 159 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (84), 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 Pitsburg?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pitsburg's scale — its 6a band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pitsburg'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 Pitsburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pitsburg's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 108 acres it covers and 159 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pitsburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pitsburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Nov 2 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 159 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pitsburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pitsburg's boundary and the 108 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pitsburg's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pitsburg 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 Pitsburg's 108 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Darke County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Darke 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 Darke County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pitsburg's 108 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pitsburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 108 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 Pitsburg-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioPitsburg sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.