Wilkesville, 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.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Wilkesville, 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 Wilkesville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Wilkesville — the short answer
Wilkesville, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 202 days between hard freezes, across 166 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~202
- 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 Wilkesville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wilkesville's 202-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wilkesville
Each reading below is measured for Wilkesville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWilkesville runs about 202 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
MeasuredWilkesville 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 Wilkesville is in
Wilkesville sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Wilkesville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Vinton County.
What Grows in Wilkesville
Every plant below cleared Wilkesville's own zone 6b and its 202-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wilkesville?
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 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 26 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Wilkesville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wilkesville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BOBO'S FEED STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- KRISTA HEDRICKUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- WILKESVILLE TWP GARAGEBrownfields · 950 ft
- ROLLING HILLS GENERATING, LLC (0682000057)Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- PAR MAR #41Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- ASHLAND BRAND MKTG 490-315966Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- MORRIS AUTO REPAIRBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- PICK & SHOVELUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- SOUTHERN OHIO COAL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- SALEM CENTER ELEMENTARYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- CONSOL ENERGY MINING CO. LLC - MEIGS MINE NO. 31Brownfields · 4.7 mi
- EDWIN H. DAVIS & SON, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wilkesville'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 Wilkesville.
Total Sites
41
within ~10 miles of Wilkesville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wilkesville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wilkesville
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Wilkesville
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Your land is one point inside Wilkesville
Everything above resolves to Wilkesville 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 Wilkesville Average
Wilkesville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Wilkesville
- ●One soil character for all of Wilkesville
- ●Frost dates read at Wilkesville's scale: Apr 7 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wilkesville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wilkesville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wilkesville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Wilkesville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Wilkesville
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 Wilkesville’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 Wilkesville
When does frost risk typically end in Wilkesville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wilkesville typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Wilkesville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wilkesville typically arrives around Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 12, so the watching starts about Sep 26 — about 202 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wilkesville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wilkesville sees about 202 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 12, about 167 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wilkesville?
The federal record around Wilkesville shows 41 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (23), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Wilkesville?
From about Sep 26 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wilkesville's scale — its 6b band and its 202-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wilkesville'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 Wilkesville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Wilkesville's own scale — its own ~202-day season between 28°F freezes, the 166 acres it covers and 41 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wilkesville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wilkesville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Oct 26 and the ~202-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 41 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wilkesville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wilkesville's boundary and the 166 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~202-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Wilkesville's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wilkesville's 166 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Vinton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Vinton 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 Vinton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wilkesville's 166 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wilkesville 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 Wilkesville-wide figureread your own land →
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