Woodmont, Connecticut, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Woodmont, 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 Woodmont lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Woodmont — the short answer
Woodmont, Connecticut: USDA zone 7a, about 237 days between hard freezes, across 176 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~237
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 176 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 7a is Woodmont's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodmont's 237-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodmont
Each reading below is measured for Woodmont itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodmont runs about 237 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
MeasuredWoodmont sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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
What Grows in Woodmont
Every plant below cleared Woodmont's own zone 7a and its 237-day season. Each card opens that plant's Connecticut profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodmont?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Woodmont
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Woodmont, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodmont
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodmont. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DANIEL HURWITZBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- SUNOCO SERVICE STABrownfields · 1.1 mi
- TIMS AUTO CENTER, LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- RELIABLE TOOL & DIE, INC.Brownfields · 1.3 mi
- STEVENS MFG CO INCBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- CUMBERLAND FARMS INC 691Brownfields · 1.3 mi
- METRO NORTH RAILROAD NEW HAVEN LINE - NEW HAVEN COUNTYBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- BURWELL HILL PUMP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- ADVANCED LINENBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- SPECIALTY COATING SYSTEMS INCBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- INTERFACE DEVICES, INCBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- CT-MI 308Nitrate · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius.
Measured from Woodmont'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 Woodmont.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodmont
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodmont
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodmont, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Woodmont — Superfund (36 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (155 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Woodmont
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 Woodmont average
Your land is one point inside Woodmont
Everything above resolves to Woodmont as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 176 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 Woodmont Average
Woodmont Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Woodmont
- ●One soil character for all of Woodmont
- ●Frost dates read at Woodmont's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodmont's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodmont
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodmont, Connecticut — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodmont averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodmont — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodmont average
How we know this about Woodmont
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 Woodmont’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 Woodmont
When does frost risk typically end in Woodmont?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodmont typically lands around Mar 28, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Woodmont?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodmont typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 237 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodmont?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodmont sees about 237 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Nov 6, about 202 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodmont?
The federal record around Woodmont is a meaningful one — 2,055 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,011), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.7 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 Woodmont?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodmont's scale — its 7a band and its 237-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodmont'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 Woodmont’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Woodmont's own scale — its own ~237-day season between 28°F freezes, the 176 acres it covers and 2,055 documented sites around it; 2 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodmont's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodmont's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 20 and the ~237-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,055 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodmont, the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodmont's boundary and the 176 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~237-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Woodmontlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodmont's 176 acres read through the state summaryfrom Connecticut
- The growing challenges every Connecticut grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Connecticut
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodmont's 176 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodmont you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 176 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 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 Woodmont-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across ConnecticutWoodmont sits outside our named growing regions, so Connecticut as a whole is its closest context here.
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