Greensburg, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Greensburg, 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 Greensburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Greensburg — the short answer
Greensburg, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 216 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~216
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 7a is Greensburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Greensburg's 216-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Greensburg
Each reading below is measured for Greensburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGreensburg runs about 216 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
MeasuredGreensburg 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
The kind of country Greensburg is in
Greensburg sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Greensburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Green County.
What Grows in Greensburg
Every plant below cleared Greensburg's own zone 7a and its 216-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Greensburg?
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 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — 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 Greensburg
Survey cells within 31 miles of Greensburg checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 90 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Greensburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Greensburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Green Co Board of EducationUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE STA 95Superfund · 500 ft
- Perkins GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- KY Transportation Cabinet PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Simpsons GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Greensburg BottlingUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- BC Oil Co IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Wrights Ashland StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- GREENSBURG MANUFACTURINGToxics Release Inventory · 2200 ft
- Southern StatesUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Convenient Food Mart 174Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Greensburg No 4423Underground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Greensburg'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 Greensburg.
Total Sites
175
within ~10 miles of Greensburg
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Greensburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Greensburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Greensburg, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 127 sites within ~10 miles of Greensburg. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 Greensburg
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 Greensburg average
Your land is one point inside Greensburg
Everything above resolves to Greensburg 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 city 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 Greensburg Average
Greensburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Greensburg
- ●One soil character for all of Greensburg
- ●Frost dates read at Greensburg's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Greensburg's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Greensburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Greensburg, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Greensburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Greensburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Greensburg average
How we know this about Greensburg
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Greensburg’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Greensburg
When does frost risk typically end in Greensburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Greensburg typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Greensburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Greensburg typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 216 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Greensburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Greensburg sees about 216 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 21, about 181 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Greensburg?
The federal record around Greensburg is a meaningful one — 175 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (127), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Greensburg?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Greensburg's scale — its 7a band and its 216-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Greensburg'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 Greensburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Greensburg's own scale — its own ~216-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,301 acres it covers and 175 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Greensburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Greensburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 4 and the ~216-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 175 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Greensburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Greensburg's boundary and the 1,301 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~216-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Greensburg's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Greensburg 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 Greensburg's 1,301 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Green County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Green County
- The growing challenges every Kentucky grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kentucky
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Green County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Greensburg's 1,301 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Greensburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,301 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 Greensburg-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across KentuckyGreensburg sits outside our named growing regions, so Kentucky as a whole is its closest context here.
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