Bridgeville, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bridgeville, 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 Bridgeville 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 Bridgeville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Bridgeville — the short answer
Bridgeville, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 582 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 582 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 Bridgeville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bridgeville's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bridgeville
Each reading below is measured for Bridgeville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBridgeville runs about 208 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
MeasuredBridgeville 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 Bridgeville is in
Bridgeville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bridgeville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Warren County.
What Grows in Bridgeville
Every plant below cleared Bridgeville's own zone 7a and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bridgeville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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 Bridgeville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Bridgeville, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bridgeville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bridgeville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- QUICKCHEK CORP #5Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- U S GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- LAKEVIEW ENERGY LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- 410269-- GarageNitrate · 0.9 mi
- GH BUCHMANUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- ZUK LUMBER & DEMOLITION CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- 410250-- Domestic 1Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- BELVIDERE SUNOCO FORMERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- CRAMER PLATING INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.5 mi
- CRAMER PLATING INCBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- CRAMER PLATING & ANODIZING COMPANY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- 410270-- DomNitrate · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bridgeville'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 Bridgeville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bridgeville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bridgeville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bridgeville, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 8 sites within ~10 miles of Bridgeville. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Bridgeville
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Bridgeville
Everything above resolves to Bridgeville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 582 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 Bridgeville Average
Bridgeville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Bridgeville
- ●One soil character for all of Bridgeville
- ●Frost dates read at Bridgeville's scale: Apr 7 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bridgeville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bridgeville
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We read public map data around Bridgeville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bridgeville average
How we know this about Bridgeville
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 Bridgeville’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 Bridgeville
When does frost risk typically end in Bridgeville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bridgeville typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Bridgeville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bridgeville typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bridgeville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bridgeville sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 18, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bridgeville?
The federal record around Bridgeville is a meaningful one — 498 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (286), 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 Bridgeville?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bridgeville's scale — its 7a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bridgeville'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 Bridgeville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bridgeville's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 582 acres it covers and 498 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bridgeville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bridgeville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Nov 1 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 498 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bridgeville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bridgeville's boundary and the 582 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bridgeville's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Bridgevillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bridgeville's 582 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Warren County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Warren County
- The growing challenges every New Jersey grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New Jersey
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Warren County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bridgeville's 582 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bridgeville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 582 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 Bridgeville-wide figureread your own land →