Byersville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
These conditions suit cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Byersville, 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 Byersville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Byersville — the short answer
Byersville, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 178 days between hard freezes, across 326 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~178
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 326 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 Byersville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Byersville's 178-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Byersville
Each reading below is measured for Byersville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredByersville runs about 178 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
MeasuredByersville 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 Byersville is in
Byersville sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Byersville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Livingston County.
What Grows in Byersville
Every plant below cleared Byersville's own zone 6a and its 178-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Byersville?
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 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Byersville
Spotted lanternfly documented 23 miles from Byersville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Byersville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Byersville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- COUNTRY CORNER GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- SCHRAMM FARM, INC.CAFO · 1.1 mi
- T JOSEPH SWYERSCAFO · 1.2 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1069932Brownfields · 2.1 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1069931Brownfields · 2.1 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1069901Brownfields · 2.4 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1069902Brownfields · 2.4 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1069920Brownfields · 2.5 mi
- LV1580Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- DANSVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 2.6 mi
- DANSVILLE SCHOOL BUS GARAGEBrownfields · 2.6 mi
- DANSVILLE CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTHBrownfields · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Byersville'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 Byersville.
Total Sites
155
within ~10 miles of Byersville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Byersville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Byersville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Byersville, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 14 sites within ~10 miles of Byersville. 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.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Byersville
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 Byersville average
Your land is one point inside Byersville
Everything above resolves to Byersville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 326 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 Byersville Average
Byersville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Byersville
- ●One soil character for all of Byersville
- ●Frost dates read at Byersville's scale: Apr 28 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Byersville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Byersville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Byersville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Byersville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Byersville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Byersville
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 Byersville’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 Byersville
When does frost risk typically end in Byersville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Byersville typically lands around Apr 28, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Byersville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Byersville typically arrives around Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 9, so the watching starts about Sep 23 — about 178 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Byersville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Byersville sees about 178 frost-free days — roughly Apr 28 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 19 to Oct 9, about 143 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Byersville?
The federal record around Byersville shows 155 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (70), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Byersville?
From about Sep 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 Oct 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Byersville's scale — its 6a band and its 178-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Byersville'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 Byersville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Byersville's own scale — its own ~178-day season between 28°F freezes, the 326 acres it covers and 155 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Byersville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Byersville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 28 and Oct 23 and the ~178-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 155 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Byersville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Byersville's boundary and the 326 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~178-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Byersville's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Byersvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Byersville's 326 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Livingston County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Livingston 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 Livingston County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Byersville's 326 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Byersville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 326 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 Byersville-wide figureread your own land →
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