Sabina, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Sabina, 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 Sabina 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 Sabina — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Sabina — the short answer
Sabina, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 753 acres of town.
- 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 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 753 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 Sabina's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sabina's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sabina
Each reading below is measured for Sabina itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSabina runs about 215 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
MeasuredSabina 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 Sabina is in
Sabina sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sabina's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clinton County.
What Grows in Sabina
Every plant below cleared Sabina's own zone 6b and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sabina?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 5 — 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 Sabina
Survey cells within 31 miles of Sabina 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 Sabina
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sabina. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SABINA FARMERS EXCHANGE, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- STANLEY WORKSToxics Release Inventory · 450 ft
- MAC TOOLS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- S & R TOOL & DIE INCBrownfields · 1100 ft
- SOHIOGRO SERVICE COBrownfields · 1200 ft
- PAULEY'S SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- FOOD MART (OM RAJ LLC)Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- UHL'S IGAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #5008Brownfields · 2000 ft
- TI AUTOMOTIVE SABINA FACILITYBrownfields · 2100 ft
- TI AUTOMOTIVE SABINA FACILITYToxics Release Inventory · 2100 ft
- FORMER SUPERIOR TIREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sabina'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 Sabina.
Total Sites
83
within ~10 miles of Sabina
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
10 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sabina
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sabina
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sabina, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 10 sites within ~10 miles of Sabina. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Sabina
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 Sabina average
Your land is one point inside Sabina
Everything above resolves to Sabina as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 753 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 Sabina Average
Sabina Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Sabina
- ●One soil character for all of Sabina
- ●Frost dates read at Sabina's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sabina's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sabina
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sabina, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sabina averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sabina — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sabina average
How we know this about Sabina
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 Sabina’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 Sabina
When does frost risk typically end in Sabina?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sabina 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 Sabina?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sabina typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sabina?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sabina sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 22, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sabina?
The federal record around Sabina shows 83 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (36), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Sabina?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sabina's scale — its 6b band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sabina'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 Sabina’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sabina's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 753 acres it covers and 83 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sabina's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sabina's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 5 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 83 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sabina, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sabina's boundary and the 753 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Sabina's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Sabina 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 Sabina's 753 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clinton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clinton 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 Clinton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sabina's 753 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sabina you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 753 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 Sabina-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioSabina sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.
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