Yankee Lake, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Yankee Lake, 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 Yankee Lake 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 Yankee Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Yankee Lake — the short answer
Yankee Lake, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 198 days between hard freezes, across 360 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~198
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 360 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 Yankee Lake's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Yankee Lake's 198-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Yankee Lake
Each reading below is measured for Yankee Lake itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredYankee Lake runs about 198 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredYankee Lake 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 Yankee Lake is in
Yankee Lake sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Yankee Lake's own centroid rather than borrowed from Trumbull County.
What Grows in Yankee Lake
Every plant below cleared Yankee Lake's own zone 6a and its 198-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Yankee Lake?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Yankee Lake
Spotted lanternfly documented 5 miles from Yankee Lake, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Yankee Lake
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Yankee Lake. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- YANKEE LAKEBrownfields · 600 ft
- BROOKFIELD AIRFORCE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- FUEL EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #11419Brownfields · 2.4 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #4610Brownfields · 2.4 mi
- GIANT EAGLE STORE #1435Brownfields · 2.4 mi
- BP OIL CO. #06130Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- BROOKFIELD LOCAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- BROOKCO, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- BROOKFIELD FIRE DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- LOGAN & COMPANYBrownfields · 2.5 mi
- KIRILA CONTRACTING INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Yankee Lake'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 Yankee Lake.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Yankee Lake
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Yankee Lake
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Yankee Lake, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Yankee Lake — PFAS (10 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (43 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Yankee Lake
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 Yankee Lake average
Your land is one point inside Yankee Lake
Everything above resolves to Yankee Lake as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 360 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 Yankee Lake Average
Yankee Lake Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Yankee Lake
- ●One soil character for all of Yankee Lake
- ●Frost dates read at Yankee Lake's scale: Apr 18 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Yankee Lake's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Yankee Lake
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Yankee Lake, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Yankee Lake averages can't show:
We read public map data around Yankee Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Yankee Lake average
How we know this about Yankee Lake
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 Yankee Lake’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 Yankee Lake
When does frost risk typically end in Yankee Lake?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Yankee Lake typically lands around Apr 18, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Yankee Lake?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Yankee Lake typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 198 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Yankee Lake?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Yankee Lake sees about 198 frost-free days — roughly Apr 18 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 9 to Oct 19, about 163 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Yankee Lake?
The federal record around Yankee Lake runs heavier than most — 622 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (302), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Yankee Lake?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Yankee Lake's scale — its 6a band and its 198-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Yankee Lake'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 Yankee Lake’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Yankee Lake's own scale — its own ~198-day season between 28°F freezes, the 360 acres it covers and 622 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Yankee Lake's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Yankee Lake's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 18 and Nov 2 and the ~198-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 622 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Yankee Lake, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Yankee Lake's boundary and the 360 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~198-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Yankee Lake's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Yankee Lakelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Yankee Lake's 360 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Trumbull County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Trumbull 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 Trumbull County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Yankee Lake's 360 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Yankee Lake you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 360 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Yankee Lake-wide figureread your own land →