Sebring, 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.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Sebring, 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 Sebring 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 Sebring — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Sebring — the short answer
Sebring, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 202 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~202
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Sebring's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sebring's 202-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sebring
Each reading below is measured for Sebring itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSebring runs about 202 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
MeasuredSebring 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 Sebring is in
Sebring sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sebring's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mahoning County.
What Grows in Sebring
Every plant below cleared Sebring's own zone 6a and its 202-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sebring?
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 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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 Sebring
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Sebring, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sebring
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sebring. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SEBRING VILLAGE PWSPFAS · 0 ft
- SALEM REPUBLIC RUBBER COBrownfields · 500 ft
- UNITED DIE & MFG COBrownfields · 700 ft
- SEBRING INDUSTRIAL PLATING COBrownfields · 750 ft
- SEBRING INDUSTRIAL PLATINGSuperfund · 750 ft
- MAHONING COUNTY ENGINEERUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- COUNTRY FAIR #63Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- FERRO CORPBrownfields · 1200 ft
- REFRACTORY SPECIALTIES INCBrownfields · 1200 ft
- REFRACTORY SPECIALTIES, INC., AN ALKEGEN COMPANYToxics Release Inventory · 1200 ft
- FERRO CORP SEBRING PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 1400 ft
- Courtesy Auto Sales-ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sebring'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 Sebring.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sebring
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sebring
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sebring, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Sebring — Toxics Release Inventory (36 sites) and Superfund (5 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Sebring
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 Sebring average
Your land is one point inside Sebring
Everything above resolves to Sebring as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Sebring Average
Sebring Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Sebring
- ●One soil character for all of Sebring
- ●Frost dates read at Sebring's scale: Apr 15 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sebring's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sebring
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sebring, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sebring averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sebring — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sebring average
How we know this about Sebring
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 Sebring’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 Sebring
When does frost risk typically end in Sebring?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sebring typically lands around Apr 15, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Sebring?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sebring typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 202 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sebring?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sebring sees about 202 frost-free days — roughly Apr 15 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 6 to Oct 20, about 167 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sebring?
The federal record around Sebring is a meaningful one — 382 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (189), the nearest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile 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 Sebring?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sebring's scale — its 6a band and its 202-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sebring'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 Sebring’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sebring's own scale — its own ~202-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,597 acres it covers and 382 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sebring's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sebring's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 15 and Nov 3 and the ~202-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 382 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sebring, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sebring's boundary and the 1,597 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~202-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Sebring's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Sebringlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sebring's 1,597 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mahoning County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mahoning 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 Mahoning County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sebring's 1,597 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sebring you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,597 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS 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 Sebring-wide figureread your own land →