Senecaville, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Senecaville, 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 Senecaville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Senecaville — the short answer
Senecaville, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 304 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 304 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 Senecaville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Senecaville's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Senecaville
Each reading below is measured for Senecaville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSenecaville 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
MeasuredSenecaville 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 Senecaville is in
Senecaville sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Senecaville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Guernsey County.
What Grows in Senecaville
Every plant below cleared Senecaville's own zone 6b and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Senecaville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Senecaville
Spotted lanternfly documented 23 miles from Senecaville, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Senecaville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Senecaville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RUSTY ROSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- BETTY MCVICKERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- NEUHART SENECA SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS - SENECAVILLE DAMBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- SENECA LAKE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- WAMPUM HARDWARE CO.Toxics Release Inventory · 3.3 mi
- GUERNSEY NOBLE CAREER CAMPUSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- THE LOADING ZONE #6Underground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- BP SITE #08242Underground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- BUFFALO DUCHESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- GUERNSEY POWER STATIONBrownfields · 4.0 mi
- HAROLD MOORE PROPERTYBrownfields · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Senecaville'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 Senecaville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Senecaville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Senecaville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Senecaville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Senecaville — Superfund (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (13 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Senecaville
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 Senecaville
Everything above resolves to Senecaville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 304 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 Senecaville Average
Senecaville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Senecaville
- ●One soil character for all of Senecaville
- ●Frost dates read at Senecaville's scale: Apr 11 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Senecaville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Senecaville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Senecaville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Senecaville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Senecaville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Senecaville average
How we know this about Senecaville
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 Senecaville’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 Senecaville
When does frost risk typically end in Senecaville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Senecaville typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Senecaville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Senecaville typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Senecaville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Senecaville sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 15, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Senecaville?
The federal record around Senecaville is a meaningful one — 199 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (111), 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 Senecaville?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Senecaville's scale — its 6b band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Senecaville'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 Senecaville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Senecaville's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 304 acres it covers and 199 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Senecaville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Senecaville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Oct 29 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 199 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Senecaville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Senecaville's boundary and the 304 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Senecaville's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Senecavillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Senecaville's 304 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Guernsey County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Guernsey 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 Guernsey County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Senecaville's 304 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Senecaville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 304 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 Senecaville-wide figureread your own land →
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