The Village of Indian Hill, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in The Village of Indian Hill, 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 The Village of Indian Hill lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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The Village of Indian Hill — the short answer
The Village of Indian Hill, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 12K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 12K 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 The Village of Indian Hill's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against The Village of Indian Hill's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in The Village of Indian Hill
Each reading below is measured for The Village of Indian Hill itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredThe Village of Indian Hill runs about 224 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
MeasuredThe Village of Indian Hill 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 The Village of Indian Hill is in
The Village of Indian Hill sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at The Village of Indian Hill's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hamilton County.
What Grows in The Village of Indian Hill
Every plant below cleared The Village of Indian Hill's own zone 6b and its 224-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in The Village of Indian Hill?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — 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 The Village of Indian Hill
Spotted lanternfly documented 10 miles from The Village of Indian Hill, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near The Village of Indian Hill
Closest first, within ~10 miles of The Village of Indian Hill. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- INDIAN HILL CITY PWSPFAS · 25 ft
- CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- GIVEN ROAD LEAD SITESuperfund · 0.6 mi
- CAMARGO STORAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- VILLAGE OF INDIAN HILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- INDIAN HILL EX. VILL. SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BARRY'S MADEIRA SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- UNITED DAIRY FARMERS #112Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CAMARGO MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- SPEEDWAY#9693Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- GERBER COLLISION & GLASSBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- RON CARROLL PHOTOGRAPHY, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from The Village of Indian Hill'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 The Village of Indian Hill.
Total Sites
2,354
within ~10 miles of The Village of Indian Hill
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
29 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of The Village of Indian Hill
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of The Village of Indian Hill
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around The Village of Indian Hill, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 272 sites within ~10 miles of The Village of Indian Hill. 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 The Village of Indian Hill
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 Village of Indian Hill average
Your land is one point inside The Village of Indian Hill
Everything above resolves to The Village of Indian Hill as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 12K 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 city 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 The Village of Indian Hill Average
The Village of Indian Hill Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across The Village of Indian Hill
- ●One soil character for all of The Village of Indian Hill
- ●Frost dates read at The Village of Indian Hill's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not The Village of Indian Hill's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in The Village of Indian Hill
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in The Village of Indian Hill, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Village of Indian Hill averages can't show:
We read public map data around The Village of Indian Hill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Village of Indian Hill average
How we know this about The Village of Indian Hill
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at The Village of Indian Hill’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 The Village of Indian Hill
When does frost risk typically end in The Village of Indian Hill?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in The Village of Indian Hill typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in The Village of Indian Hill?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in The Village of Indian Hill typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in The Village of Indian Hill?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, The Village of Indian Hill sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 28, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in The Village of Indian Hill?
The federal record around The Village of Indian Hill runs heavier than most — 2,354 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,218), the nearest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in The Village of Indian Hill?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at The Village of Indian Hill's scale — its 6b band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of The Village of Indian Hill'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 The Village of Indian Hill’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at The Village of Indian Hill's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 12,422 acres it covers and 2,354 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- The Village of Indian Hill's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- The Village of Indian Hill's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 11 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,354 documented contamination sites on the federal record near The Village of Indian Hill, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- The Village of Indian Hill's boundary and the 12,422 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~224-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at The Village of Indian Hill's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of The Village of Indian Hilllydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so The Village of Indian Hill's 12,422 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hamilton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hamilton 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 Hamilton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among The Village of Indian Hill's 12,422 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of The Village of Indian Hill you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 12,422 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 The Village of Indian Hill-wide figureread your own land →
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