Tuppers Plains, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — 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 Tuppers Plains, 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 Tuppers Plains 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 Tuppers Plains — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Tuppers Plains — the short answer
Tuppers Plains, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- 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
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Tuppers Plains's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tuppers Plains's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tuppers Plains
Each reading below is measured for Tuppers Plains itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTuppers Plains runs about 215 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
MeasuredTuppers Plains 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 Tuppers Plains is in
Tuppers Plains sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Tuppers Plains's own centroid rather than borrowed from Meigs County.
What Grows in Tuppers Plains
Every plant below cleared Tuppers Plains's own zone 6b and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tuppers Plains?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (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 Tuppers Plains
Survey cells within 31 miles of Tuppers Plains checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 57 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Tuppers Plains
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tuppers Plains. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OHIO VALLEY MFG CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- TUPPERS PLAINS BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- ROGER L. HAWKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- TP ONE STOP LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CAROL'S STOP N PUMP LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- TUPPER PLAINS/CHESTER WATER DISTRICTPFAS · 2300 ft
- LITTLE JOHNS # 3Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Go-Mart Store #117Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- MARLENE DONOVANUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- A-1 SANITATIONBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- ODNR FORKED RUN STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tuppers Plains'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 Tuppers Plains.
Total Sites
62
within ~10 miles of Tuppers Plains
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
11 brownfield sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tuppers Plains
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tuppers Plains
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tuppers Plains, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 42 sites within ~10 miles of Tuppers Plains. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Tuppers Plains
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 Tuppers Plains average
Your land is one point inside Tuppers Plains
Everything above resolves to Tuppers Plains as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Tuppers Plains Average
Tuppers Plains Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Tuppers Plains
- ●One soil character for all of Tuppers Plains
- ●Frost dates read at Tuppers Plains's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tuppers Plains's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tuppers Plains
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tuppers Plains, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tuppers Plains averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tuppers Plains — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tuppers Plains average
How we know this about Tuppers Plains
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 Tuppers Plains’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 Tuppers Plains
When does frost risk typically end in Tuppers Plains?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tuppers Plains typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Tuppers Plains?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tuppers Plains 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 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tuppers Plains?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tuppers Plains sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 20, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tuppers Plains?
The federal record around Tuppers Plains shows 62 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (42), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Tuppers Plains?
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 Tuppers Plains's scale — its 6b band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tuppers Plains'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 Tuppers Plains’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Tuppers Plains's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,162 acres it covers and 62 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tuppers Plains's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tuppers Plains's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 3 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 62 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tuppers Plains, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tuppers Plains's boundary and the 1,162 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tuppers Plains's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Tuppers Plains 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 Tuppers Plains's 1,162 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Meigs County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Meigs 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 Meigs County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tuppers Plains's 1,162 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tuppers Plains you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,162 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Tuppers Plains-wide figureread your own land →