Ridgeville Corners, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Ridgeville Corners, 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 Ridgeville Corners lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Ridgeville Corners — the short answer
Ridgeville Corners, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 585 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 585 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 Ridgeville Corners's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ridgeville Corners's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ridgeville Corners
Each reading below is measured for Ridgeville Corners itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRidgeville Corners runs about 201 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
MeasuredRidgeville Corners 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 Ridgeville Corners is in
Ridgeville Corners sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Ridgeville Corners's own centroid rather than borrowed from Henry County.
What Grows in Ridgeville Corners
Every plant below cleared Ridgeville Corners's own zone 6a and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ridgeville Corners?
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 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Ridgeville Corners
Survey cells within 31 miles of Ridgeville Corners 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 Ridgeville Corners
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ridgeville Corners. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RIDGEVILLE ELEVATORUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- RIDGE AUTO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- BENECKE TRUCKING, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- JOHN F. ARNOSUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- BRUCE'S JUICESUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- J & L PLANT FOOD, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- BECK'S PETRO COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- ALEX PRODUCTS INCToxics Release Inventory · 2400 ft
- ALEX PRODUCTS INCBrownfields · 2400 ft
- BECK BROTHERS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- HY-53Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- TWILIGHT BARUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ridgeville Corners'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 Ridgeville Corners.
Total Sites
221
within ~10 miles of Ridgeville Corners
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
31 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ridgeville Corners
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ridgeville Corners
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ridgeville Corners, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 31 sites within ~10 miles of Ridgeville Corners. 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.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Ridgeville Corners
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 Ridgeville Corners
Everything above resolves to Ridgeville Corners as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 585 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 Ridgeville Corners Average
Ridgeville Corners Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Ridgeville Corners
- ●One soil character for all of Ridgeville Corners
- ●Frost dates read at Ridgeville Corners's scale: Apr 13 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ridgeville Corners's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Ridgeville Corners
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Ridgeville Corners, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Ridgeville Corners averages can't show:
We read public map data around Ridgeville Corners — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ridgeville Corners average
How we know this about Ridgeville Corners
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 Ridgeville Corners’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 Ridgeville Corners
When does frost risk typically end in Ridgeville Corners?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ridgeville Corners typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Ridgeville Corners?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ridgeville Corners typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ridgeville Corners?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ridgeville Corners sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 17, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ridgeville Corners?
The federal record around Ridgeville Corners is a meaningful one — 221 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (108), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Ridgeville Corners?
From about Oct 1 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 31 (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 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ridgeville Corners's scale — its 6a band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ridgeville Corners'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 Ridgeville Corners’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Ridgeville Corners's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 585 acres it covers and 221 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ridgeville Corners's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Ridgeville Corners's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Oct 31 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 221 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ridgeville Corners, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ridgeville Corners's boundary and the 585 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ridgeville Corners's own centroid, the Huron/Erie Lake PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Ridgeville Corners 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 Ridgeville Corners's 585 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Henry County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Henry 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 Henry County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Ridgeville Corners's 585 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ridgeville Corners you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 585 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 Ridgeville Corners-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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