St. Regis Park, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in St. Regis Park, 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 St. Regis Park 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 St. Regis Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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St. Regis Park — the short answer
St. Regis Park, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 240 days between hard freezes, across 225 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~240
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 225 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 St. Regis Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against St. Regis Park's 240-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in St. Regis Park
Each reading below is measured for St. Regis Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSt. Regis Park runs about 240 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
MeasuredSt. Regis Park 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 St. Regis Park is in
St. Regis Park sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at St. Regis Park's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jefferson County.
What Grows in St. Regis Park
Every plant below cleared St. Regis Park's own zone 7a and its 240-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in St. Regis Park?
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 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 16 — 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 St. Regis Park
Survey cells within 31 miles of St. Regis Park checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 51 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near St. Regis Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of St. Regis Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Christopher EastUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- DOLLAR TREE #01898Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- Dairy Mart 78Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Jefferson Co Fire Protection No 14Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Chevron 0048553Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- The Brook Hospital - DupontUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Beckhams IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Rite Aid 4635Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- K Mart 4006Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- D&S Automotive RepairUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Exhaust Pro/Waynes Muffler ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Five Points Food Mart #2Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from St. Regis Park'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 St. Regis Park.
Total Sites
2,464
within ~10 miles of St. Regis Park
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
18 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of St. Regis Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of St. Regis Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around St. Regis Park, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of St. Regis Park — Toxics Release Inventory (188 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (1,767 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in St. Regis Park
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 St. Regis Park average
Your land is one point inside St. Regis Park
Everything above resolves to St. Regis Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 225 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 St. Regis Park Average
St. Regis Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across St. Regis Park
- ●One soil character for all of St. Regis Park
- ●Frost dates read at St. Regis Park's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not St. Regis Park's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in St. Regis Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in St. Regis Park, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that St. Regis Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around St. Regis Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the St. Regis Park average
How we know this about St. Regis Park
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 St. Regis Park’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 St. Regis Park
When does frost risk typically end in St. Regis Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in St. Regis Park typically lands around Mar 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in St. Regis Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in St. Regis Park typically arrives around Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 2, so the watching starts about Oct 17 — about 240 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in St. Regis Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, St. Regis Park sees about 240 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Nov 2, about 205 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in St. Regis Park?
The federal record around St. Regis Park is a meaningful one — 2,464 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,767), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 St. Regis Park?
From about Oct 17 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at St. Regis Park's scale — its 7a band and its 240-day season. Your yard writes its own version of St. Regis Park'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 St. Regis Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at St. Regis Park's own scale — its own ~240-day season between 28°F freezes, the 225 acres it covers and 2,464 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- St. Regis Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- St. Regis Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 16 and the ~240-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,464 documented contamination sites on the federal record near St. Regis Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- St. Regis Park's boundary and the 225 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~240-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at St. Regis Park's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around St. Regis Park 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 St. Regis Park's 225 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jefferson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jefferson 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 Jefferson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among St. Regis Park's 225 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of St. Regis Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 225 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 St. Regis Park-wide figureread your own land →