Woodsfield, 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.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Woodsfield, 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 Woodsfield 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 Woodsfield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Woodsfield — the short answer
Woodsfield, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 1K 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)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- 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 6b is Woodsfield's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodsfield's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodsfield
Each reading below is measured for Woodsfield itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodsfield runs about 213 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
MeasuredWoodsfield 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 Woodsfield is in
Woodsfield sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodsfield's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monroe County.
What Grows in Woodsfield
Every plant below cleared Woodsfield's own zone 6b and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodsfield?
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 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 Woodsfield
Survey cells within 31 miles of Woodsfield checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 31 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodsfield
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodsfield. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WOODSFIELD DUCHESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- ASHLAND BRAND MKTG 590-455701Underground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- KOUNTRY KAR CAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- TIRE AMERICAUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- KNOWLTON FORD-MERCURY, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- TSP 818Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- ASHLAND BRAND MKTG 590-258433Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- KNOWLTON FORDBrownfields · 800 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #7844Brownfields · 1100 ft
- RED HEAD QUICK STOP LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- UNLIMITED AUTOSBrownfields · 1300 ft
- WOODSFIELD CARRY OUT LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodsfield'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 Woodsfield.
Total Sites
50
within ~10 miles of Woodsfield
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodsfield
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodsfield
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodsfield, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 32 sites within ~10 miles of Woodsfield. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Woodsfield
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 Woodsfield average
Your land is one point inside Woodsfield
Everything above resolves to Woodsfield 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 Woodsfield Average
Woodsfield Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Woodsfield
- ●One soil character for all of Woodsfield
- ●Frost dates read at Woodsfield's scale: Apr 7 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodsfield's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodsfield
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodsfield, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodsfield averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodsfield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodsfield average
How we know this about Woodsfield
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 Woodsfield’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 Woodsfield
When does frost risk typically end in Woodsfield?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodsfield 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 Woodsfield?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodsfield 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 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodsfield?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodsfield sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 23, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodsfield?
The federal record around Woodsfield shows 50 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (32), 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 Woodsfield?
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 Woodsfield's scale — its 6b band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodsfield'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 Woodsfield’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Woodsfield's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,290 acres it covers and 50 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodsfield's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodsfield's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Nov 6 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 50 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodsfield, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodsfield's boundary and the 1,290 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodsfield's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Woodsfield checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodsfield's 1,290 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Monroe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Monroe 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 Monroe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodsfield's 1,290 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodsfield you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,290 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 Woodsfield-wide figureread your own land →
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