West Leipsic, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in West Leipsic, 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 West Leipsic lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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West Leipsic — the short answer
West Leipsic, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 159 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- 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
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 159 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 West Leipsic's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against West Leipsic's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in West Leipsic
Each reading below is measured for West Leipsic itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWest Leipsic runs about 208 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
MeasuredWest Leipsic 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 West Leipsic is in
West Leipsic sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at West Leipsic's own centroid rather than borrowed from Putnam County.
What Grows in West Leipsic
Every plant below cleared West Leipsic's own zone 6a and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in West Leipsic?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (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. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around West Leipsic
Survey cells within 31 miles of West Leipsic checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 35 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near West Leipsic
Closest first, within ~10 miles of West Leipsic. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WERNER STREET LEADSuperfund · 1300 ft
- AJS CARRY OUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- LEIPSIC AUTO BODYBrownfields · 2400 ft
- ASHLAND BRAND MKTG 811-277993Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- ASHLAND BRAND MKTG 811-278002Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- WAGNER FARM & SAWMILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- LEIPSIC TRACK DEPT.Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- ASHLAND BRAND MKTG 811-444698Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- TIMOTHY BERGERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- WILLIAMS PETROLEUMUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- PHILLIPS OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ASHLAND BRAND MKTG 811-278190Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from West Leipsic'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 West Leipsic.
Total Sites
110
within ~10 miles of West Leipsic
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of West Leipsic
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of West Leipsic
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around West Leipsic, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of West Leipsic — Superfund (4 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (8 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in West Leipsic
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside West Leipsic
Everything above resolves to West Leipsic as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 159 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 West Leipsic Average
West Leipsic Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across West Leipsic
- ●One soil character for all of West Leipsic
- ●Frost dates read at West Leipsic's scale: Apr 11 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not West Leipsic's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in West Leipsic
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in West Leipsic, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that West Leipsic averages can't show:
We read public map data around West Leipsic — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the West Leipsic average
How we know this about West Leipsic
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 West Leipsic’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 West Leipsic
When does frost risk typically end in West Leipsic?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in West Leipsic typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in West Leipsic?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in West Leipsic 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 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in West Leipsic?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, West Leipsic sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 22, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in West Leipsic?
The federal record around West Leipsic is a meaningful one — 110 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (62), the nearest Superfund 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 West Leipsic?
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 West Leipsic's scale — its 6a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of West Leipsic'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 West Leipsic’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at West Leipsic's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 159 acres it covers and 110 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- West Leipsic's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- West Leipsic's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Nov 5 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 110 documented contamination sites on the federal record near West Leipsic, the closest Superfund record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- West Leipsic's boundary and the 159 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at West Leipsic's own centroid, the Huron/Erie Lake PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around West Leipsic 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 West Leipsic's 159 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Putnam County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Putnam 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 Putnam County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among West Leipsic's 159 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of West Leipsic you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 159 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund 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 West Leipsic-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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