Baldwinsville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Baldwinsville, 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 Baldwinsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Baldwinsville — the short answer
Baldwinsville, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 204 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~204
- 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 6a is Baldwinsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Baldwinsville's 204-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Baldwinsville
Each reading below is measured for Baldwinsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBaldwinsville runs about 204 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
MeasuredBaldwinsville 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 Baldwinsville is in
Baldwinsville sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Baldwinsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Onondaga County.
What Grows in Baldwinsville
Every plant below cleared Baldwinsville's own zone 6a and its 204-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Baldwinsville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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 Baldwinsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 13 miles from Baldwinsville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Baldwinsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Baldwinsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MICHELS MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- VILLAGE OF BALDWINSVILLE DPWUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- GREG SOHRWEIDEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- TOWN OF LYSANDER HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- KWIK FILL MO365/365Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- RICK'S AUTO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- KWIK FILL M365Brownfields · 1800 ft
- ERIE BLVD HYDROPOWER - BALDWINSVILLEBrownfields · 1800 ft
- WAVE HYDRO LLCBrownfields · 1900 ft
- NYS CANAL CORP - LOCK E24Brownfields · 2100 ft
- 7-ELEVEN #40212Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- BALDWINSVILLE SCHOOL DISTBrownfields · 2400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Baldwinsville'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 Baldwinsville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Baldwinsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Baldwinsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Baldwinsville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Baldwinsville — CAFO (11 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (51 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.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Baldwinsville
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 Baldwinsville average
Your land is one point inside Baldwinsville
Everything above resolves to Baldwinsville 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 Baldwinsville Average
Baldwinsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Baldwinsville
- ●One soil character for all of Baldwinsville
- ●Frost dates read at Baldwinsville's scale: Apr 13 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Baldwinsville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Baldwinsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Baldwinsville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Baldwinsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Baldwinsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Baldwinsville average
How we know this about Baldwinsville
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 Baldwinsville’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 Baldwinsville
When does frost risk typically end in Baldwinsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Baldwinsville typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Baldwinsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Baldwinsville typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 204 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Baldwinsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Baldwinsville sees about 204 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 20, about 169 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Baldwinsville?
The federal record around Baldwinsville is a meaningful one — 673 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (323), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Baldwinsville?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Baldwinsville's scale — its 6a band and its 204-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Baldwinsville'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 Baldwinsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Baldwinsville's own scale — its own ~204-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,042 acres it covers and 673 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Baldwinsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Baldwinsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Nov 3 and the ~204-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 673 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Baldwinsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Baldwinsville's boundary and the 2,042 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~204-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Baldwinsville's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Baldwinsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Baldwinsville's 2,042 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Onondaga County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Onondaga 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 Onondaga County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Baldwinsville's 2,042 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Baldwinsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,042 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 Baldwinsville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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