Hazleton, Indiana, 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.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Hazleton, 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 Hazleton 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 Hazleton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Hazleton — the short answer
Hazleton, Indiana: USDA zone 6b, about 218 days between hard freezes, across 221 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~218
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 221 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 Hazleton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hazleton's 218-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hazleton
Each reading below is measured for Hazleton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHazleton runs about 218 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
MeasuredHazleton 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 Hazleton is in
Hazleton sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hazleton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gibson County.
What Grows in Hazleton
Every plant below cleared Hazleton's own zone 6b and its 218-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hazleton?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Hazleton
Survey cells within 31 miles of Hazleton checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 141 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hazleton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hazleton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KIRKS ELEVATORUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- HARTSHORNE ASSOCIATES ENGINEERING INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- Pick & Pump PlazaUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- MARY KRUGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- IDEM PESTICIDE SURVEY WELL 222Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- JOLEE & LINDA CULP PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- IW-75 VINCENNES, IND.Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- NAWQA AG WELL GL20 NEAR IONA, INNitrate · 4.3 mi
- NAWQA AG WELL FA1S NEAR PATOKA, INNitrate · 4.8 mi
- NAWQA AG WELL FA1D NEAR PATOKA, INNitrate · 4.8 mi
- SIP-1 VINCENNES, IND.Nitrate · 5.3 mi
- Chuckles 9Underground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hazleton'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 Hazleton.
Total Sites
133
within ~10 miles of Hazleton
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
9 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hazleton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hazleton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hazleton, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Hazleton — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (9 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Hazleton
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 Hazleton average
Your land is one point inside Hazleton
Everything above resolves to Hazleton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 221 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 Hazleton Average
Hazleton Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Hazleton
- ●One soil character for all of Hazleton
- ●Frost dates read at Hazleton's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hazleton's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hazleton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hazleton, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hazleton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hazleton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hazleton average
How we know this about Hazleton
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 Hazleton’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 Hazleton
When does frost risk typically end in Hazleton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hazleton typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Hazleton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hazleton typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 218 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hazleton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hazleton sees about 218 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 22, about 183 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hazleton?
The federal record around Hazleton shows 133 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (84), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles 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 Hazleton?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hazleton's scale — its 6b band and its 218-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hazleton'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 Hazleton’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hazleton's own scale — its own ~218-day season between 28°F freezes, the 221 acres it covers and 133 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hazleton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hazleton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 5 and the ~218-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 133 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hazleton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hazleton's boundary and the 221 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~218-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hazleton's own centroid, the Interior River Valleys and HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Hazleton 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 Hazleton's 221 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gibson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gibson County
- The growing challenges every Indiana grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Indiana
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Gibson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hazleton's 221 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hazleton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 221 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Hazleton-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across IndianaHazleton sits outside our named growing regions, so Indiana as a whole is its closest context here.