Sugarcreek, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Sugarcreek, 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 Sugarcreek lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Sugarcreek — the short answer
Sugarcreek, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- 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
- ~209
- 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 Sugarcreek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sugarcreek's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sugarcreek
Each reading below is measured for Sugarcreek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSugarcreek runs about 209 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
MeasuredSugarcreek 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 Sugarcreek is in
Sugarcreek sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sugarcreek's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tuscarawas County.
What Grows in Sugarcreek
Every plant below cleared Sugarcreek's own zone 6a and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sugarcreek?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Sugarcreek
Survey cells within 31 miles of Sugarcreek checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 37 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sugarcreek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sugarcreek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WIDDER SHELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- SWISS VALLEY OIL CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- SUPERB INDUSTRIES INCToxics Release Inventory · 800 ft
- SUPERB INDUSTRIES INCBrownfields · 800 ft
- BELDEN BRICK CO PLANT 2Brownfields · 900 ft
- BELDEN BRICK CO PLANT 2Toxics Release Inventory · 900 ft
- BELDEN BRICK CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- BELDEN BRICK CO PLANT 4Toxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
- VILLAGE TIRE & AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- MOOMAW CHEVROLET, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- BELDEN BRICK PLANT 9 (0679005019)Toxics Release Inventory · 2400 ft
- SCN CORP.Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sugarcreek'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 Sugarcreek.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sugarcreek
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sugarcreek
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sugarcreek, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Sugarcreek — Toxics Release Inventory (51 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 Sugarcreek
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 Sugarcreek average
Your land is one point inside Sugarcreek
Everything above resolves to Sugarcreek 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 Sugarcreek Average
Sugarcreek Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Sugarcreek
- ●One soil character for all of Sugarcreek
- ●Frost dates read at Sugarcreek's scale: Apr 10 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sugarcreek's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sugarcreek
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sugarcreek, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sugarcreek averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sugarcreek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sugarcreek average
How we know this about Sugarcreek
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 Sugarcreek’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 Sugarcreek
When does frost risk typically end in Sugarcreek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sugarcreek typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Sugarcreek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sugarcreek 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 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sugarcreek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sugarcreek sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 22, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sugarcreek?
The federal record around Sugarcreek is a meaningful one — 383 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (161), 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 Sugarcreek?
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 Sugarcreek's scale — its 6a band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sugarcreek'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 Sugarcreek’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sugarcreek's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,433 acres it covers and 383 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sugarcreek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sugarcreek's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Nov 5 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 383 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sugarcreek, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sugarcreek's boundary and the 2,433 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Sugarcreek's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Sugarcreek 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 Sugarcreek's 2,433 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tuscarawas County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tuscarawas 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 Tuscarawas County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sugarcreek's 2,433 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sugarcreek you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,433 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 Sugarcreek-wide figureread your own land →
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