Pinardville, New Hampshire, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Pinardville, 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 Pinardville 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 Pinardville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Pinardville — the short answer
Pinardville, New Hampshire: USDA zone 6a, about 197 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~197
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 6a is Pinardville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pinardville's 197-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pinardville
Each reading below is measured for Pinardville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPinardville runs about 197 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
MeasuredPinardville sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Pinardville is in
Pinardville sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pinardville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Hillsborough County is mostly Northeastern Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Pinardville
Every plant below cleared Pinardville's own zone 6a and its 197-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Hampshire profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pinardville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Pinardville
Spotted lanternfly documented 20 miles from Pinardville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pinardville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pinardville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 7 ELEVEN 32496Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- PINARD LUBE AND WASH INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- CR PERRAS COLLISION LLCBrownfields · 900 ft
- C.R. PERRAS COLLISION, LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- BRICK-CRETE MFG CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- FORMER PINARDVILLE MOBILUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- ADVANCE AUTO PARTS 9713Brownfields · 1000 ft
- RELIABLE COLLISION AND RESTORATIONBrownfields · 1100 ft
- VITTOS CLEANERS INCBrownfields · 1200 ft
- HANNAFORD FOOD & DRUG 8311Brownfields · 1400 ft
- B & M CORP ROUNDHOUSE YARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- ANTIFREEZE TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMSBrownfields · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pinardville'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 Pinardville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pinardville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pinardville
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Pinardville
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 Pinardville average
Your land is one point inside Pinardville
Everything above resolves to Pinardville 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 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 Pinardville Average
Pinardville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Pinardville
- ●One soil character for all of Pinardville
- ●Frost dates read at Pinardville's scale: Apr 11 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pinardville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pinardville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pinardville, New Hampshire — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pinardville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pinardville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pinardville average
How we know this about Pinardville
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 Pinardville’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 Pinardville
When does frost risk typically end in Pinardville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pinardville typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Pinardville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pinardville typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 197 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pinardville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pinardville sees about 197 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 11, about 162 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pinardville?
The federal record around Pinardville is a meaningful one — 1,145 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (569), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Pinardville?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pinardville's scale — its 6a band and its 197-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pinardville'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 Pinardville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pinardville's own scale — its own ~197-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,065 acres it covers and 1,145 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pinardville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pinardville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Oct 25 and the ~197-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,145 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pinardville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pinardville's boundary and the 1,065 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~197-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Pinardville sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Pinardvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pinardville's 1,065 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hillsborough County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hillsborough County
- The growing challenges every New Hampshire grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New Hampshire
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Hillsborough County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pinardville's 1,065 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pinardville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,065 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Pinardville-wide figureread your own land →