Angola on the Lake, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Angola on the Lake, 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 Angola on the Lake lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Angola on the Lake — the short answer
Angola on the Lake, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 228 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~228
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 6b is Angola on the Lake's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Angola on the Lake's 228-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Angola on the Lake
Each reading below is measured for Angola on the Lake itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAngola on the Lake runs about 228 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
MeasuredAngola on the Lake sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Angola on the Lake is in
Angola on the Lake sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Angola on the Lake's own centroid rather than borrowed from Erie County.
What Grows in Angola on the Lake
Every plant below cleared Angola on the Lake's own zone 6b and its 228-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Angola on the Lake?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 22 — 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 Angola on the Lake
Spotted lanternfly documented 20 miles from Angola on the Lake, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Angola on the Lake
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Angola on the Lake. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ECSD 2 BIG SISTER CREEK WWTPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- ERIE CO SD 2 WWTP - BIG SISTER CREEKBrownfields · 2200 ft
- GINO'S AUTO CAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- BASIL'S SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #6977Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- LAKE SHORE CENTRAL SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- LAKE SHORE SR. HIGHUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1001360Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- LAKE SHORE CENTRAL SCHOOLS BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- WEIL'S SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- RITE AID #4672Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- FERBER AUTOMOTIVE CORPBrownfields · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Angola on the Lake'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 Angola on the Lake.
Total Sites
184
within ~10 miles of Angola on the Lake
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Angola on the Lake
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Angola on the Lake
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Angola on the Lake, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Angola on the Lake — CAFO (3 sites) and Superfund (4 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Angola on the Lake
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Your land is one point inside Angola on the Lake
Everything above resolves to Angola on the Lake as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Angola on the Lake Average
Angola on the Lake Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Angola on the Lake
- ●One soil character for all of Angola on the Lake
- ●Frost dates read at Angola on the Lake's scale: Apr 8 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Angola on the Lake's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Angola on the Lake
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Angola on the Lake, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Angola on the Lake averages can't show:
We read public map data around Angola on the Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Angola on the Lake average
How we know this about Angola on the Lake
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 Angola on the Lake’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 Angola on the Lake
When does frost risk typically end in Angola on the Lake?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Angola on the Lake typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Angola on the Lake?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Angola on the Lake typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 228 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Angola on the Lake?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Angola on the Lake sees about 228 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Nov 8, about 193 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Angola on the Lake?
The federal record around Angola on the Lake is a meaningful one — 184 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (105), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Angola on the Lake?
From about Oct 23 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Angola on the Lake's scale — its 6b band and its 228-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Angola on the Lake'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 Angola on the Lake’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Angola on the Lake's own scale — its own ~228-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,629 acres it covers and 184 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Angola on the Lake's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Angola on the Lake's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Nov 22 and the ~228-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 184 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Angola on the Lake, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Angola on the Lake's boundary and the 1,629 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~228-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Angola on the Lake's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Angola on the Lakelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Angola on the Lake's 1,629 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Erie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Erie 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 Erie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Angola on the Lake's 1,629 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Angola on the Lake you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,629 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Angola on the Lake-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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