Centerport, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Centerport, 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 Centerport lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Centerport — the short answer
Centerport, New York: USDA zone 7b, about 248 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~248
- 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 7b is Centerport's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Centerport's 248-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Centerport
Each reading below is measured for Centerport itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCenterport runs about 248 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
MeasuredCenterport sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Centerport is in
Centerport sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Centerport's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Suffolk County is mostly Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Centerport
Every plant below cleared Centerport's own zone 7b and its 248-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Centerport?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Centerport
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Centerport, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Centerport
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Centerport. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SUFFOLK CTY VANDERBILT MUSEUMBrownfields · 950 ft
- PORT TANK & FUEL INCBrownfields · 2300 ft
- FUEL TANK ENVIRONMENTALBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- NORTHPORT YACHT CLUBBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- BODYKRAFTERS OF NORTHPORTBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- CENTERPORT CLEANERSBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- S 67656. 1Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- S 874. 1Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- MOY LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANINGBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- S 23699. 1Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- S 31. 1Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- SCWA SOUTHAMPTON PLANT DIST SYST-WELLS 1341DNitrate · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Centerport'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 Centerport.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Centerport
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Centerport
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Centerport, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Centerport — Nitrate (516 sites) and Brownfields (647 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.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Centerport
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 Centerport average
Your land is one point inside Centerport
Everything above resolves to Centerport 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 Centerport Average
Centerport Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Centerport
- ●One soil character for all of Centerport
- ●Frost dates read at Centerport's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Centerport's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Centerport
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Centerport, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Centerport averages can't show:
We read public map data around Centerport — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Centerport average
How we know this about Centerport
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 Centerport’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 Centerport
When does frost risk typically end in Centerport?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Centerport typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Centerport?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Centerport typically arrives around Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 13, so the watching starts about Oct 28 — about 248 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Centerport?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Centerport sees about 248 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Nov 13, about 213 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Centerport?
The federal record around Centerport is a meaningful one — 1,285 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (647), the nearest Brownfields 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 Centerport?
From about Oct 28 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 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 Nov 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Centerport's scale — its 7b band and its 248-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Centerport'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 Centerport’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Centerport's own scale — its own ~248-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,416 acres it covers and 1,285 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Centerport's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Centerport's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 27 and the ~248-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,285 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Centerport, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Centerport's boundary and the 1,416 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~248-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Centerport sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Centerportlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Centerport's 1,416 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 Centerport's 1,416 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Centerport you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,416 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Centerport-wide figureread your own land →
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