Pine Hill, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pine Hill, 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 Pine Hill lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pine Hill — the short answer
Pine Hill, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 234 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- 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
- ~234
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Pine Hill's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pine Hill's 234-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pine Hill
Each reading below is measured for Pine Hill itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPine Hill runs about 234 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
MeasuredPine Hill 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 Pine Hill is in
Pine Hill sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pine Hill's own centroid rather than borrowed from Camden County.
What Grows in Pine Hill
Every plant below cleared Pine Hill's own zone 7a and its 234-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pine Hill?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (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 Pine Hill
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Pine Hill, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pine Hill
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pine Hill. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 070399-- 1-49Nitrate · 2300 ft
- 070398-- Pine Hill 2-1972Nitrate · 2300 ft
- 071256-- MW18BNitrate · 2500 ft
- 070392-- PW 1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- GETTY 56253Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 070989-- PW 6 sealedNitrate · 0.6 mi
- BOB'S SERVICE CENTER (FORMER)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MULTANI & SONS LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 070885-- Ou14-TenNitrate · 0.6 mi
- 070859-- Ou14Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- PSE&G CAMDEN GAS PLANT M&RBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- OVERBROOK SR HSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pine Hill'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 Pine Hill.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pine Hill
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pine Hill
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pine Hill, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pine Hill — Superfund (37 sites) and Nitrate (738 sites). 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Pine Hill
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 Pine Hill average
Your land is one point inside Pine Hill
Everything above resolves to Pine Hill as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Pine Hill Average
Pine Hill Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Pine Hill
- ●One soil character for all of Pine Hill
- ●Frost dates read at Pine Hill's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pine Hill's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pine Hill
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pine Hill, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pine Hill averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pine Hill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pine Hill average
How we know this about Pine Hill
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 Pine Hill’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 Pine Hill
When does frost risk typically end in Pine Hill?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pine Hill typically lands around Mar 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Pine Hill?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pine Hill 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 234 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pine Hill?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pine Hill sees about 234 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Nov 2, about 199 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pine Hill?
The federal record around Pine Hill runs heavier than most — 2,346 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,175), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Pine Hill?
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 Pine Hill's scale — its 7a band and its 234-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pine Hill'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 Pine Hill’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pine Hill's own scale — its own ~234-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,114 acres it covers and 2,346 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pine Hill's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pine Hill's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 16 and the ~234-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,346 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pine Hill, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pine Hill's boundary and the 3,114 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~234-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pine Hill's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Pine Hilllydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pine Hill's 3,114 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Camden County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Camden 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 Camden County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pine Hill's 3,114 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pine Hill you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,114 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Pine Hill-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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