Aquebogue, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Aquebogue, 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 Aquebogue lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Aquebogue — the short answer
Aquebogue, New York: USDA zone 7a, about 220 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~220
- 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 7a is Aquebogue's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Aquebogue's 220-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Aquebogue
Each reading below is measured for Aquebogue itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAquebogue runs about 220 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
MeasuredAquebogue 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 Aquebogue is in
Aquebogue sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Aquebogue's own centroid rather than borrowed from Suffolk County.
What Grows in Aquebogue
Every plant below cleared Aquebogue's own zone 7a and its 220-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Aquebogue?
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 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — 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 Aquebogue
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Aquebogue, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Aquebogue
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Aquebogue. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- S106200. 1Nitrate · 1800 ft
- SUPERIOR SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- S 137731, NYNitrate · 0.7 mi
- S 137732, NYNitrate · 0.7 mi
- S 51589. 1Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- S 89545. 1Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- S112255. 2Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- JV-2Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- S115260. 2Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- S 51588. 1Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- S 33073. 1Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- S 51322. 1Nitrate · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Aquebogue'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 Aquebogue.
Total Sites
510
within ~10 miles of Aquebogue
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
7 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Aquebogue
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Aquebogue
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Aquebogue, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Aquebogue — Nitrate (324 sites) and Superfund (7 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Aquebogue
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 Aquebogue average
Your land is one point inside Aquebogue
Everything above resolves to Aquebogue 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 Aquebogue Average
Aquebogue Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Aquebogue
- ●One soil character for all of Aquebogue
- ●Frost dates read at Aquebogue's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Aquebogue's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Aquebogue
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Aquebogue, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Aquebogue averages can't show:
We read public map data around Aquebogue — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Aquebogue average
How we know this about Aquebogue
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 Aquebogue’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 Aquebogue
When does frost risk typically end in Aquebogue?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Aquebogue typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Aquebogue?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Aquebogue typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 220 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Aquebogue?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Aquebogue sees about 220 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 27, about 185 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Aquebogue?
The federal record around Aquebogue is a meaningful one — 510 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (324), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Aquebogue?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Aquebogue's scale — its 7a band and its 220-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Aquebogue'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 Aquebogue’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Aquebogue's own scale — its own ~220-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,435 acres it covers and 510 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Aquebogue's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Aquebogue's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 10 and the ~220-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 510 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Aquebogue, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Aquebogue's boundary and the 2,435 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~220-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Aquebogue's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Aqueboguelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Aquebogue's 2,435 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Suffolk County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Suffolk 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 Suffolk County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Aquebogue's 2,435 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Aquebogue you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,435 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Aquebogue-wide figureread your own land →
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