Reynoldsburg, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Reynoldsburg, 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 Reynoldsburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Reynoldsburg — the short answer
Reynoldsburg, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 7K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- 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
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 7K 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 Reynoldsburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Reynoldsburg's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Reynoldsburg
Each reading below is measured for Reynoldsburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredReynoldsburg runs about 217 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
MeasuredReynoldsburg 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 Reynoldsburg is in
Reynoldsburg sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Reynoldsburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Franklin County.
What Grows in Reynoldsburg
Every plant below cleared Reynoldsburg's own zone 6b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Reynoldsburg?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (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 Reynoldsburg
Spotted lanternfly documented 9 miles from Reynoldsburg, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Reynoldsburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Reynoldsburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BRUBAKER OIL CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #7936Brownfields · 2100 ft
- SPEEDWAY 4487Brownfields · 2100 ft
- REYNOLDSBURG CITY PWSPFAS · 2200 ft
- ORIENTAL CONNECTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- SPEEDWAY #4487Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- VALERO SMART STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- KROGER #N543Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BP OIL CO. #08152Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HEISHMAN CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Reynoldsburg'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 Reynoldsburg.
Total Sites
1,293
within ~10 miles of Reynoldsburg
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
10 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Reynoldsburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Reynoldsburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Reynoldsburg, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Reynoldsburg — Toxics Release Inventory (89 sites) and PFAS (11 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.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Reynoldsburg
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 Reynoldsburg average
Your land is one point inside Reynoldsburg
Everything above resolves to Reynoldsburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 7K 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 city 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 Reynoldsburg Average
Reynoldsburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Reynoldsburg
- ●One soil character for all of Reynoldsburg
- ●Frost dates read at Reynoldsburg's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Reynoldsburg's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Reynoldsburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Reynoldsburg, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Reynoldsburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Reynoldsburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Reynoldsburg average
How we know this about Reynoldsburg
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Reynoldsburg’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Reynoldsburg
When does frost risk typically end in Reynoldsburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Reynoldsburg typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Reynoldsburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Reynoldsburg 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 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Reynoldsburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Reynoldsburg sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 24, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Reynoldsburg?
The federal record around Reynoldsburg is a meaningful one — 1,293 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (602), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Reynoldsburg?
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 Reynoldsburg's scale — its 6b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Reynoldsburg'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 Reynoldsburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Reynoldsburg's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 7,252 acres it covers and 1,293 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Reynoldsburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Reynoldsburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 7 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,293 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Reynoldsburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Reynoldsburg's boundary and the 7,252 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Reynoldsburg's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Reynoldsburglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Reynoldsburg's 7,252 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Franklin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Franklin 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 Franklin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Reynoldsburg's 7,252 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Reynoldsburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 7,252 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Reynoldsburg-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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