Woodsdale, 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.
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 Woodsdale, 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 Woodsdale 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 Woodsdale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Woodsdale — the short answer
Woodsdale, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 498 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~212
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 498 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 Woodsdale's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodsdale's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodsdale
Each reading below is measured for Woodsdale itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodsdale 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
MeasuredWoodsdale 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 Woodsdale is in
Woodsdale sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodsdale's own centroid rather than borrowed from Butler County.
What Grows in Woodsdale
Every plant below cleared Woodsdale'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 Woodsdale?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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 Woodsdale
Spotted lanternfly documented 18 miles from Woodsdale, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodsdale
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodsdale. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BU-1106 MIAM NAWQA SUS WELL BVAS-29Nitrate · 1400 ft
- REDEMPTION AUTO TECH LLCBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- STREET LEGAL CONCEPTSBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- ANDREW WILSONBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- KROGER #430Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- MIDWEST SHOOTING CENTERBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- SHELL #1209Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- BUTLER METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- LIBERTY DELI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- UNITED DAIRY FARMERS #031Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- MIDWEST CUSTOM AUTOSPORTSBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- COLUMBIA OIL CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodsdale'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 Woodsdale.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodsdale
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodsdale
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodsdale, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 152 sites within ~10 miles of Woodsdale. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Woodsdale
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 Woodsdale average
Your land is one point inside Woodsdale
Everything above resolves to Woodsdale as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 498 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 Woodsdale Average
Woodsdale Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Woodsdale
- ●One soil character for all of Woodsdale
- ●Frost dates read at Woodsdale's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodsdale's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodsdale
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodsdale, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodsdale averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodsdale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodsdale average
How we know this about Woodsdale
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 Woodsdale’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 Woodsdale
When does frost risk typically end in Woodsdale?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodsdale typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Woodsdale?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodsdale typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodsdale?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodsdale sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 18, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodsdale?
The federal record around Woodsdale runs heavier than most — 1,340 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (599), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Woodsdale?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodsdale's scale — its 6b band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodsdale'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 Woodsdale’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Woodsdale's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 498 acres it covers and 1,340 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodsdale's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodsdale's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 1 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,340 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodsdale, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodsdale's boundary and the 498 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 Woodsdale's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Woodsdalelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodsdale's 498 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Butler County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Butler 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 Butler County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodsdale's 498 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodsdale you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 498 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Woodsdale-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioWoodsdale sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.
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