Airmont, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Airmont, 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 Airmont lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Airmont — the short answer
Airmont, New York: USDA zone 7a, about 218 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~218
- 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 Airmont's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Airmont's 218-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Airmont
Each reading below is measured for Airmont itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAirmont runs about 218 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
MeasuredAirmont 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 Airmont is in
Airmont sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Airmont's own centroid rather than borrowed from Rockland County.
What Grows in Airmont
Every plant below cleared Airmont's own zone 7a and its 218-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Airmont?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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 Airmont
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Airmont, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Airmont
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Airmont. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CHERRY LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- SHOCK TECHBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- AIRMONT DUMPSTER FIRESuperfund · 0.8 mi
- EASTERN AUTO BODYBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- WALMART #2905Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- RO 294Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- GLOBAL MONTELLO GROUP #5928Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- AUTOZONE #6161Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- WALGREENSBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- 030235-- Dom 1Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- AIRMONT GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- JACK'S SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Airmont'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 Airmont.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Airmont
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Airmont
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Airmont, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 40 sites within ~10 miles of Airmont. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Airmont
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 Airmont average
Your land is one point inside Airmont
Everything above resolves to Airmont 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 Airmont Average
Airmont Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Airmont
- ●One soil character for all of Airmont
- ●Frost dates read at Airmont's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Airmont's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Airmont
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Airmont, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Airmont averages can't show:
We read public map data around Airmont — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Airmont average
How we know this about Airmont
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 Airmont’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 Airmont
When does frost risk typically end in Airmont?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Airmont typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Airmont?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Airmont typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 218 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Airmont?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Airmont sees about 218 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 23, about 183 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Airmont?
The federal record around Airmont runs heavier than most — 1,705 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (834), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Airmont?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Airmont's scale — its 7a band and its 218-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Airmont'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 Airmont’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Airmont's own scale — its own ~218-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,922 acres it covers and 1,705 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Airmont's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Airmont's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 6 and the ~218-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,705 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Airmont, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Airmont's boundary and the 2,922 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~218-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Airmont's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Airmontlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Airmont's 2,922 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Rockland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Rockland County
- The growing challenges every New York grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New York
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Rockland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Airmont's 2,922 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Airmont you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,922 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 Airmont-wide figureread your own land →
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