Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Hasbrouck Heights, 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 Hasbrouck Heights lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hasbrouck Heights — the short answer
Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 240 days between hard freezes, across 975 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~240
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 975 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 7b is Hasbrouck Heights's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hasbrouck Heights's 240-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hasbrouck Heights
Each reading below is measured for Hasbrouck Heights itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHasbrouck Heights 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
MeasuredHasbrouck Heights sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Hasbrouck Heights is in
Hasbrouck Heights sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hasbrouck Heights's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bergen County.
What Grows in Hasbrouck Heights
Every plant below cleared Hasbrouck Heights's own zone 7b and its 240-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hasbrouck Heights?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Hasbrouck Heights
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Hasbrouck Heights, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hasbrouck Heights
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hasbrouck Heights. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SHELL SERVICE STATION 138371Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- H&H BOULEVARD SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- 030273-- Dom 1Nitrate · 1000 ft
- 214 TERRACE AVENUE REALTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- EXXON R/S 35228Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- SCHENK CHEV DBA KUNDERT CHEVUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- WALGREENS 19733Brownfields · 1900 ft
- 030271-- Dom 1Nitrate · 2100 ft
- 030274-- Dom 1Nitrate · 2200 ft
- BILL O'SHEAS FLORIST & GIFTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- HASBROUCK HEIGHTS BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- 030270-- Dom 1Nitrate · 2500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hasbrouck Heights'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 Hasbrouck Heights.
Total Sites
11,651
within ~10 miles of Hasbrouck Heights
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
161 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hasbrouck Heights
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hasbrouck Heights
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hasbrouck Heights, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 161 sites within ~10 miles of Hasbrouck Heights. 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 Hasbrouck Heights
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Your land is one point inside Hasbrouck Heights
Everything above resolves to Hasbrouck Heights as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 975 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 Hasbrouck Heights Average
Hasbrouck Heights Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Hasbrouck Heights
- ●One soil character for all of Hasbrouck Heights
- ●Frost dates read at Hasbrouck Heights's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hasbrouck Heights's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hasbrouck Heights
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hasbrouck Heights averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hasbrouck Heights — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hasbrouck Heights average
How we know this about Hasbrouck Heights
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 Hasbrouck Heights’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 Hasbrouck Heights
When does frost risk typically end in Hasbrouck Heights?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hasbrouck Heights typically lands around Mar 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Hasbrouck Heights?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hasbrouck Heights typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 240 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hasbrouck Heights?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hasbrouck Heights sees about 240 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Nov 6, about 205 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hasbrouck Heights?
The federal record around Hasbrouck Heights runs heavier than most — 11,651 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (7,136), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Hasbrouck Heights?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hasbrouck Heights's scale — its 7b band and its 240-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hasbrouck Heights'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 Hasbrouck Heights’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hasbrouck Heights's own scale — its own ~240-day season between 28°F freezes, the 975 acres it covers and 11,651 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hasbrouck Heights's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hasbrouck Heights's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 20 and the ~240-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 11,651 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hasbrouck Heights, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hasbrouck Heights's boundary and the 975 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~240-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hasbrouck Heights's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Hasbrouck Heightslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hasbrouck Heights's 975 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bergen County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bergen 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 Bergen County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hasbrouck Heights's 975 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hasbrouck Heights you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 975 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 Hasbrouck Heights-wide figureread your own land →