Attica, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Attica, 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 Attica lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Attica — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Attica — the short answer
Attica, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 188 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~188
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 6a is Attica's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Attica's 188-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Attica
Each reading below is measured for Attica itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAttica runs about 188 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAttica sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Attica is in
Attica sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Attica's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Wyoming County is mostly Northern Allegheny Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Attica
Every plant below cleared Attica's own zone 6a and its 188-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Attica?
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 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Attica
Spotted lanternfly documented 28 miles from Attica, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Attica
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Attica. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VILLAGE OF ATTICAUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- BENGO'S EXPRESS MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- ATTICA CORR FACILITY (DIV. OF INDUSTRIES)Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- ATTICA AUTO & HARDWAREBrownfields · 1500 ft
- HILLCREST INDUSTRIES INCBrownfields · 1600 ft
- HILLCREST INDUSTRIES INCSuperfund · 1600 ft
- 7-11 #35103Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- ATTICA GARAGE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- CARNEY FUGLE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- AJ'S AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- NYSDOT BIN 1035690Brownfields · 2500 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #10405Brownfields · 2500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Attica'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 Attica.
Total Sites
191
within ~10 miles of Attica
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Attica
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Attica
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Attica, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Attica — CAFO (32 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Attica
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 Attica average
Your land is one point inside Attica
Everything above resolves to Attica as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Attica Average
Attica Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Attica
- ●One soil character for all of Attica
- ●Frost dates read at Attica's scale: Apr 22 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Attica's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Attica
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Attica, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Attica averages can't show:
We read public map data around Attica — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Attica average
How we know this about Attica
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 Attica’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 Attica
When does frost risk typically end in Attica?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Attica typically lands around Apr 22, 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 May 13.
When is the first frost in Attica?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Attica typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 188 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Attica?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Attica sees about 188 frost-free days — roughly Apr 22 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 13 to Oct 13, about 153 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Attica?
The federal record around Attica is a meaningful one — 191 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (86), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Attica?
From about Sep 27 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 Oct 27 (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 Oct 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Attica's scale — its 6a band and its 188-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Attica'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 Attica’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Attica's own scale — its own ~188-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,116 acres it covers and 191 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Attica's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Attica's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 22 and Oct 27 and the ~188-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 191 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Attica, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Attica's boundary and the 1,116 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~188-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Attica sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Atticalydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Attica's 1,116 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wyoming County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wyoming 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 Wyoming County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Attica's 1,116 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Attica you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,116 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Attica-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across New YorkAttica sits outside our named growing regions, so New York as a whole is its closest context here.