Woodbury Center, Connecticut, 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.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Woodbury Center, 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 Woodbury Center 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 Woodbury Center — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Woodbury Center — the short answer
Woodbury Center, Connecticut: USDA zone 6b, about 202 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~202
- 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 Woodbury Center's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodbury Center's 202-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodbury Center
Each reading below is measured for Woodbury Center itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodbury Center 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
MeasuredWoodbury Center 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 Woodbury Center is in
Woodbury Center sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodbury Center's own centroid rather than borrowed from Naugatuck Valley Planning Region.
What Grows in Woodbury Center
Every plant below cleared Woodbury Center's own zone 6b and its 202-day season. Each card opens that plant's Connecticut profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodbury Center?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — 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 Woodbury Center
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Woodbury Center, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodbury Center
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodbury Center. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DENOMINATOR COMPANY, INC.Superfund · 1000 ft
- LEWIS CORPORATIONSuperfund · 1000 ft
- LONTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- DOMS LYNNS CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- WEST'S SALES & SERVICE, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- CUMBERLAND FARMS, INC./RESIDENTIALUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- WOODBURY SAND & MOWERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- GREENUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- ROSEMARY E. GIVIANOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- WOODBURY APARTMENTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- EMERGENCY SERVICES BUILDINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- WOODBURY PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodbury Center'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 Woodbury Center.
Total Sites
1,294
within ~10 miles of Woodbury Center
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
20 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodbury Center
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodbury Center
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodbury Center, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Woodbury Center — Toxics Release Inventory (103 sites) and Superfund (20 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Woodbury Center
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 Woodbury Center average
Your land is one point inside Woodbury Center
Everything above resolves to Woodbury Center 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 Woodbury Center Average
Woodbury Center Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Woodbury Center
- ●One soil character for all of Woodbury Center
- ●Frost dates read at Woodbury Center's scale: Apr 10 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodbury Center's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodbury Center
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodbury Center, Connecticut — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodbury Center averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodbury Center — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodbury Center average
How we know this about Woodbury Center
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 Woodbury Center’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 Woodbury Center
When does frost risk typically end in Woodbury Center?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodbury Center typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Woodbury Center?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodbury Center typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 202 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodbury Center?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodbury Center sees about 202 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 15, about 167 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodbury Center?
The federal record around Woodbury Center is a meaningful one — 1,294 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (632), the nearest Superfund record about 0.2 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 Woodbury Center?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodbury Center's scale — its 6b band and its 202-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodbury Center'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 Woodbury Center’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Woodbury Center's own scale — its own ~202-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,295 acres it covers and 1,294 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodbury Center's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodbury Center's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Oct 29 and the ~202-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,294 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodbury Center, the closest Superfund record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodbury Center's boundary and the 1,295 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 Woodbury Center's own centroid, the Northeastern Coastal ZoneUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Woodbury Centerlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodbury Center's 1,295 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Naugatuck Valley County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Naugatuck Valley County
- The growing challenges every Connecticut grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Connecticut
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Naugatuck Valley County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodbury Center's 1,295 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodbury Center you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,295 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund record about 0.2 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 Woodbury Center-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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