Rogers, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Rogers, 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 Rogers 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 Rogers — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Rogers — the short answer
Rogers, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 145 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~192
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 145 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 Rogers's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rogers's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rogers
Each reading below is measured for Rogers itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRogers runs about 192 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredRogers 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 Rogers is in
Rogers sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Rogers's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Columbiana County is mostly Erie Drift Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Rogers
Every plant below cleared Rogers's own zone 6b and its 192-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rogers?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Rogers
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Rogers, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Rogers
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rogers. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #12518Brownfields · 650 ft
- ROGERS FOOD & FUELUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- BLONDIES CARRYOUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- SAVE-A-LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- FERRIS COAL CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- EAST FAIRFIELD MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- CENTURY CONTAINER, LLC-CENTURY INDUSTRIES CORP 2Brownfields · 2.3 mi
- CENTURY MAIN STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- LAKE TOMAHAWK MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- SUSTAIN LLCBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- MAJESTIC MANUFACTURING INCBrownfields · 3.2 mi
- NEVILLE AUTO BODYBrownfields · 3.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Rogers'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 Rogers.
Total Sites
261
within ~10 miles of Rogers
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Rogers
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rogers
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Rogers, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Rogers — PFAS (4 sites) and Superfund (5 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Rogers
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 Rogers average
Your land is one point inside Rogers
Everything above resolves to Rogers as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 145 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 Rogers Average
Rogers Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Rogers
- ●One soil character for all of Rogers
- ●Frost dates read at Rogers's scale: Apr 18 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rogers's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Rogers
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Rogers, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Rogers averages can't show:
We read public map data around Rogers — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rogers average
How we know this about Rogers
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 Rogers’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 Rogers
When does frost risk typically end in Rogers?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rogers typically lands around Apr 18, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Rogers?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rogers typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 192 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rogers?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rogers sees about 192 frost-free days — roughly Apr 18 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 9 to Oct 13, about 157 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rogers?
The federal record around Rogers is a meaningful one — 261 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (133), the nearest Brownfields 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 Rogers?
From about Sep 27 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Rogers's scale — its 6b band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rogers'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 Rogers’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Rogers's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 145 acres it covers and 261 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rogers's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Rogers's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 18 and Oct 27 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 261 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rogers, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rogers's boundary and the 145 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~192-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Rogers sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Rogerslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Rogers's 145 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Columbiana County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Columbiana 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 Columbiana County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rogers's 145 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rogers you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 145 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Rogers-wide figureread your own land →
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