West Millgrove, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 West Millgrove, 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 Millgrove 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 Millgrove — the short answer
West Millgrove, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 166 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- 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 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~212
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 166 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 West Millgrove's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against West Millgrove's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in West Millgrove
Each reading below is measured for West Millgrove itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWest Millgrove runs about 212 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 Millgrove 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 West Millgrove is in
West Millgrove sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at West Millgrove's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wood County.
What Grows in West Millgrove
Every plant below cleared West Millgrove's own zone 6b and its 212-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in West Millgrove?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. 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 8 — 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 West Millgrove
Spotted lanternfly documented 21 miles from West Millgrove, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near West Millgrove
Closest first, within ~10 miles of West Millgrove. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SERVICE MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- WEBB WRECKINGBrownfields · 700 ft
- GERKEN MATERIALS INC PLANT 11Brownfields · 1500 ft
- WO-347-B12 (FREDRICK) NR EAGLEVILLE OHNitrate · 2.6 mi
- ELMWOOD HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- WO-203-PE12 (MAUHOLLAND) NR WEST MILLGROVE OHNitrate · 3.0 mi
- WO-204-PE22 (DIBLING)NR FOSTORIA OHNitrate · 3.2 mi
- STAHL OIL CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- GALLAGHER'S CARRY OUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- CHARTER STEEL INCToxics Release Inventory · 3.7 mi
- CHARTER STEEL INCBrownfields · 3.7 mi
- SUN GRAIN ASSOCIATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from West Millgrove'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 Millgrove.
Total Sites
241
within ~10 miles of West Millgrove
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
7 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of West Millgrove
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of West Millgrove
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around West Millgrove, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of West Millgrove — Superfund (7 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (23 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Millgrove
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 Millgrove
Everything above resolves to West Millgrove as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 166 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 Millgrove Average
West Millgrove Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across West Millgrove
- ●One soil character for all of West Millgrove
- ●Frost dates read at West Millgrove's scale: Apr 10 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not West Millgrove's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in West Millgrove
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in West Millgrove, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that West Millgrove averages can't show:
We read public map data around West Millgrove — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the West Millgrove average
How we know this about West Millgrove
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 Millgrove’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 Millgrove
When does frost risk typically end in West Millgrove?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in West Millgrove 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 West Millgrove?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in West Millgrove typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in West Millgrove?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, West Millgrove sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 25, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in West Millgrove?
The federal record around West Millgrove is a meaningful one — 241 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (101), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Millgrove?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at West Millgrove's scale — its 6b band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of West Millgrove'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 Millgrove’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at West Millgrove's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 166 acres it covers and 241 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- West Millgrove's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- West Millgrove's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Nov 8 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 241 documented contamination sites on the federal record near West Millgrove, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- West Millgrove's boundary and the 166 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~212-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at West Millgrove's own centroid, the Huron/Erie Lake PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of West Millgrovelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so West Millgrove's 166 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wood County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wood 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 Wood County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among West Millgrove's 166 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of West Millgrove you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 166 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 West Millgrove-wide figureread your own land →
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