Kitzmiller, Maryland, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Kitzmiller, 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 Kitzmiller lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kitzmiller — the short answer
Kitzmiller, Maryland: USDA zone 6b, about 181 days between hard freezes, across 142 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~181
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 142 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 Kitzmiller's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kitzmiller's 181-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kitzmiller
Each reading below is measured for Kitzmiller itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKitzmiller runs about 181 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredKitzmiller 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 Kitzmiller is in
Kitzmiller sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kitzmiller's own centroid rather than borrowed from Garrett County.
What Grows in Kitzmiller
Every plant below cleared Kitzmiller's own zone 6b and its 181-day season. Each card opens that plant's Maryland profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kitzmiller?
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 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Kitzmiller
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Kitzmiller, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Kitzmiller
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kitzmiller. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Kitzmiller CDO (GLC-31190)Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Kitzmiller StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- Main Street WarehouseUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Kitzmiller Water Treatment PlantUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- GA Ed 14Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- Min-0072Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- S E JONESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- ELK GARDEN SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- AT&T MT STORM FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- JENNINGS RANDOLPH LAKEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- HARRY EUGENE HENDERSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- ELK GARDEN GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kitzmiller'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 Kitzmiller.
Total Sites
146
within ~10 miles of Kitzmiller
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kitzmiller
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kitzmiller
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
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Your land is one point inside Kitzmiller
Everything above resolves to Kitzmiller as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 142 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 Kitzmiller Average
Kitzmiller Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Kitzmiller
- ●One soil character for all of Kitzmiller
- ●Frost dates read at Kitzmiller's scale: Apr 24 to Oct 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kitzmiller's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kitzmiller
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kitzmiller, Maryland — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kitzmiller averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kitzmiller — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kitzmiller average
How we know this about Kitzmiller
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 Kitzmiller’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 Kitzmiller
When does frost risk typically end in Kitzmiller?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kitzmiller typically lands around Apr 24, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Kitzmiller?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kitzmiller typically arrives around Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 8, so the watching starts about Sep 22 — about 181 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kitzmiller?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kitzmiller sees about 181 frost-free days — roughly Apr 24 through Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 15 to Oct 8, about 146 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kitzmiller?
The federal record around Kitzmiller shows 146 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (81), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Kitzmiller?
From about Sep 22 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kitzmiller's scale — its 6b band and its 181-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kitzmiller'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 Kitzmiller’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Kitzmiller's own scale — its own ~181-day season between 28°F freezes, the 142 acres it covers and 146 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kitzmiller's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kitzmiller's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 24 and Oct 22 and the ~181-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 146 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kitzmiller, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kitzmiller's boundary and the 142 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~181-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kitzmiller's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Kitzmillerlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kitzmiller's 142 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Garrett County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Garrett County
- The growing challenges every Maryland grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Maryland
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Garrett County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kitzmiller's 142 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kitzmiller you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 142 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Kitzmiller-wide figureread your own land →
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