Washingtonville, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Washingtonville, 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 Washingtonville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Washingtonville — the short answer
Washingtonville, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 178 days between hard freezes, across 428 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~178
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 428 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 Washingtonville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Washingtonville's 178-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Washingtonville
Each reading below is measured for Washingtonville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWashingtonville runs about 178 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
MeasuredWashingtonville 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 Washingtonville is in
Washingtonville sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Washingtonville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Columbiana County.
What Grows in Washingtonville
Every plant below cleared Washingtonville's own zone 6a and its 178-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Washingtonville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Washingtonville
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Washingtonville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Washingtonville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Washingtonville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CITY OF WASHINGTONVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- SHOPPER'S CHOICE MARATHON INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- WM INCBrownfields · 2000 ft
- RASUL BROSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WITMERS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- VILLAGE OF LEETONIAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CMG LLCToxics Release Inventory · 1.3 mi
- MORRIS AUTO BODYBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- MOBIL STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- TAYLOR'S SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #11158Brownfields · 1.6 mi
- BERNARD STRAUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Washingtonville'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 Washingtonville.
Total Sites
448
within ~10 miles of Washingtonville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Washingtonville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Washingtonville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Washingtonville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 31 sites within ~10 miles of Washingtonville. 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 Washingtonville
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 Washingtonville average
Your land is one point inside Washingtonville
Everything above resolves to Washingtonville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 428 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 Washingtonville Average
Washingtonville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Washingtonville
- ●One soil character for all of Washingtonville
- ●Frost dates read at Washingtonville's scale: Apr 24 to Oct 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Washingtonville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Washingtonville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Washingtonville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Washingtonville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Washingtonville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Washingtonville average
How we know this about Washingtonville
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 Washingtonville’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 Washingtonville
When does frost risk typically end in Washingtonville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Washingtonville typically lands around Apr 24, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Washingtonville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Washingtonville typically arrives around Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 5, so the watching starts about Sep 19 — about 178 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Washingtonville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Washingtonville sees about 178 frost-free days — roughly Apr 24 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 15 to Oct 5, about 143 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Washingtonville?
The federal record around Washingtonville is a meaningful one — 448 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (222), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Washingtonville?
From about Sep 19 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Washingtonville's scale — its 6a band and its 178-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Washingtonville'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 Washingtonville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Washingtonville's own scale — its own ~178-day season between 28°F freezes, the 428 acres it covers and 448 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Washingtonville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Washingtonville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 24 and Oct 19 and the ~178-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 448 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Washingtonville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Washingtonville's boundary and the 428 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~178-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Washingtonville's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Washingtonvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Washingtonville's 428 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Columbiana County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Columbiana 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 Columbiana County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Washingtonville's 428 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Washingtonville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 428 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 Washingtonville-wide figureread your own land →
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