Shreve, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Shreve, 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 Shreve 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 Shreve — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Shreve — the short answer
Shreve, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 189 days between hard freezes, across 554 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- 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 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~189
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 554 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 Shreve's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Shreve's 189-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Shreve
Each reading below is measured for Shreve itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredShreve runs about 189 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
MeasuredShreve 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 Shreve is in
Shreve sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Shreve's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wayne County.
What Grows in Shreve
Every plant below cleared Shreve's own zone 6a and its 189-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Shreve?
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 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 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Shreve
Survey cells within 31 miles of Shreve checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 39 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Shreve
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Shreve. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SHELLEY BROTHERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- JIM BEALE SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #11396Brownfields · 200 ft
- SHREVE BELLSTORESUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- HAROLD D. MILLER, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- SCHECK IGAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- CERCO LLC-DIAMONITE PLTToxics Release Inventory · 2000 ft
- CERCO LLC-DIAMONITE PLTBrownfields · 2000 ft
- RIPLEY TOWNSHIP GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- RED HEAD BRASS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- RED HEAD BRASS LLCToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- DOMETIC SANITATION CORPToxics Release Inventory · 3.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Shreve'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 Shreve.
Total Sites
209
within ~10 miles of Shreve
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Shreve
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Shreve
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Shreve, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 25 sites within ~10 miles of Shreve. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Shreve
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 Shreve average
Your land is one point inside Shreve
Everything above resolves to Shreve as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 554 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 Shreve Average
Shreve Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Shreve
- ●One soil character for all of Shreve
- ●Frost dates read at Shreve's scale: Apr 18 to Oct 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Shreve's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Shreve
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Shreve, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Shreve averages can't show:
We read public map data around Shreve — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Shreve average
How we know this about Shreve
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 Shreve’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 Shreve
When does frost risk typically end in Shreve?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Shreve 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 Shreve?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Shreve typically arrives around Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 10, so the watching starts about Sep 24 — about 189 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Shreve?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Shreve sees about 189 frost-free days — roughly Apr 18 through Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 9 to Oct 10, about 154 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Shreve?
The federal record around Shreve is a meaningful one — 209 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (108), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Shreve?
From about Sep 24 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Shreve's scale — its 6a band and its 189-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Shreve'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 Shreve’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Shreve's own scale — its own ~189-day season between 28°F freezes, the 554 acres it covers and 209 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Shreve's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Shreve's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 18 and Oct 24 and the ~189-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 209 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Shreve, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Shreve's boundary and the 554 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~189-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Shreve's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Shreve 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 Shreve's 554 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wayne County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wayne 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 Wayne County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Shreve's 554 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Shreve you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 554 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 Shreve-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioShreve sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.
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