Richmond Dale, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Richmond Dale, 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 Richmond Dale lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Richmond Dale — the short answer
Richmond Dale, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 320 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~209
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 320 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 Richmond Dale's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Richmond Dale's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Richmond Dale
Each reading below is measured for Richmond Dale itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRichmond Dale 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
MeasuredRichmond Dale 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 Richmond Dale is in
Richmond Dale sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Richmond Dale's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ross County.
What Grows in Richmond Dale
Every plant below cleared Richmond Dale's own zone 6b and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Richmond Dale?
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 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Richmond Dale
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Richmond Dale. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SOUTHERN SILCIA, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- SCIOTO VALLEY LOCAL SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- COLLINS MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- ROBERT M. WILESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- MARKEL'S MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- O'DELL RESTAURANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- CLARY TRUCKING, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- QUICK ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PARRY CO. INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- DRAKE FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #10935Brownfields · 4.4 mi
- FORMER FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Richmond Dale'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 Richmond Dale.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Richmond Dale
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Richmond Dale, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 43 sites within ~10 miles of Richmond Dale. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Richmond Dale
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Richmond Dale
Everything above resolves to Richmond Dale as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 320 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 Richmond Dale Average
Richmond Dale Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Richmond Dale
- ●One soil character for all of Richmond Dale
- ●Frost dates read at Richmond Dale's scale: Apr 6 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Richmond Dale's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Richmond Dale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Richmond Dale
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 Richmond Dale’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 Richmond Dale
When does frost risk typically end in Richmond Dale?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Richmond Dale typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Richmond Dale?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Richmond Dale typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Richmond Dale?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Richmond Dale sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 18, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Richmond Dale?
The federal record around Richmond Dale shows 51 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (43), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Richmond Dale?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Richmond Dale's scale — its 6b band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Richmond Dale'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 Richmond Dale’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Richmond Dale's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 320 acres it covers and 51 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Richmond Dale's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Richmond Dale's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Nov 1 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 51 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Richmond Dale, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Richmond Dale's boundary and the 320 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Richmond Dale's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Richmond Dale's 320 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ross County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ross 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 Ross County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Richmond Dale's 320 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Richmond Dale you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 320 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Richmond Dale-wide figureread your own land →
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