Whites Landing, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Whites Landing, 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 Whites Landing lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Whites Landing — the short answer
Whites Landing, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 227 days between hard freezes, across 188 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 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~227
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 188 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 Whites Landing's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Whites Landing's 227-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Whites Landing
Each reading below is measured for Whites Landing itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWhites Landing runs about 227 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
MeasuredWhites Landing 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 Whites Landing is in
Whites Landing sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Whites Landing's own centroid rather than borrowed from Erie County.
What Grows in Whites Landing
Every plant below cleared Whites Landing's own zone 6b and its 227-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Whites Landing?
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 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Whites Landing
Spotted lanternfly documented 10 miles from Whites Landing, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Whites Landing
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Whites Landing. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CARL'S BAIT & CARRY OUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- BAY HARBOR MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- S-217-T1 HALL NR CASTALIA OHNitrate · 2.2 mi
- ODNR WILLOW POINT WILDLIFE AREAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- JIM CRUMUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- LEON BALDUFFUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- S-218-T15 WARNER SW OF VICKERY OHNitrate · 3.0 mi
- S-218A WARNER NR VICKERY OHNitrate · 3.1 mi
- S-231-RL36 ODNR WILDLIFE AT BAYVIEW OHNitrate · 3.6 mi
- MEGGITT SANDBLASTING & PAINTINGBrownfields · 4.0 mi
- LONE OAK INNUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- BAY VIEW VILLAGE FIRE DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Whites Landing'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 Whites Landing.
Total Sites
375
within ~10 miles of Whites Landing
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
7 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Whites Landing
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Whites Landing
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Whites Landing, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Whites Landing — PFAS (8 sites) and Superfund (7 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Whites Landing
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 Whites Landing
Everything above resolves to Whites Landing as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 188 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 Whites Landing Average
Whites Landing Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Whites Landing
- ●One soil character for all of Whites Landing
- ●Frost dates read at Whites Landing's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Whites Landing's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Whites Landing
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Whites Landing, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Whites Landing averages can't show:
We read public map data around Whites Landing — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Whites Landing average
How we know this about Whites Landing
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 Whites Landing’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 Whites Landing
When does frost risk typically end in Whites Landing?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Whites Landing 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 Whites Landing?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Whites Landing typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 227 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Whites Landing?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Whites Landing sees about 227 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Nov 1, about 192 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Whites Landing?
The federal record around Whites Landing is a meaningful one — 375 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (206), 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 Whites Landing?
From about Oct 16 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Whites Landing's scale — its 6b band and its 227-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Whites Landing'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 Whites Landing’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Whites Landing's own scale — its own ~227-day season between 28°F freezes, the 188 acres it covers and 375 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Whites Landing's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Whites Landing's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 15 and the ~227-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 375 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Whites Landing, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Whites Landing's boundary and the 188 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~227-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Whites Landing's own centroid, the Huron/Erie Lake PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Whites Landinglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Whites Landing's 188 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Erie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Erie 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 Erie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Whites Landing's 188 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Whites Landing you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 188 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 Whites Landing-wide figureread your own land →
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