Westfield Center, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — 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 Westfield Center, 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 Westfield Center 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 Westfield Center — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Westfield Center — the short answer
Westfield Center, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- 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 6a is Westfield Center's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Westfield Center's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Westfield Center
Each reading below is measured for Westfield Center itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWestfield Center 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
MeasuredWestfield Center 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 Westfield Center is in
Westfield Center sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Westfield Center's own centroid rather than borrowed from Medina County.
What Grows in Westfield Center
Every plant below cleared Westfield Center'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 Westfield Center?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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 Westfield Center
Spotted lanternfly documented 18 miles from Westfield Center, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Westfield Center
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Westfield Center. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JANE WOODRINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- OHIO FARMERS INSURANCE CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- WESTFIELD CENTER MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- PILOT TRAVEL CENTERS #013Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- EDNA R BENSINGER TRUSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- TRUCK WASHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- SEVILLE TRAVEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- LODI TRAVEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- TA LODIBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- CLOVERLEAF HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- MEDINA CO/SOUTHERN WATER DIST PWSPFAS · 2.8 mi
- BLEACHTECH LLCToxics Release Inventory · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Westfield Center'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 Westfield Center.
Total Sites
349
within ~10 miles of Westfield Center
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Westfield Center
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Westfield Center
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Westfield Center, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Westfield Center — Toxics Release Inventory (59 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Westfield Center
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 Westfield Center average
Your land is one point inside Westfield Center
Everything above resolves to Westfield Center 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 Westfield Center Average
Westfield Center Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Westfield Center
- ●One soil character for all of Westfield Center
- ●Frost dates read at Westfield Center's scale: Apr 12 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Westfield Center's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Westfield Center
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Westfield Center, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Westfield Center averages can't show:
We read public map data around Westfield Center — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Westfield Center average
How we know this about Westfield Center
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 Westfield Center’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 Westfield Center
When does frost risk typically end in Westfield Center?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Westfield Center typically lands around Apr 12, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Westfield Center?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Westfield Center typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Westfield Center?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Westfield Center sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 23, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Westfield Center?
The federal record around Westfield Center is a meaningful one — 349 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (155), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Westfield Center?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Westfield Center's scale — its 6a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Westfield Center'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 Westfield Center’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Westfield Center's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,354 acres it covers and 349 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Westfield Center's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Westfield Center's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Nov 6 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 349 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Westfield Center, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Westfield Center's boundary and the 1,354 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 Westfield Center's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Westfield Centerlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Westfield Center's 1,354 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Medina County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Medina 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 Medina County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Westfield Center's 1,354 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Westfield Center you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,354 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Westfield Center-wide figureread your own land →