Chenango Bridge, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Chenango Bridge, 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 Chenango Bridge 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 Chenango Bridge — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Chenango Bridge — the short answer
Chenango Bridge, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 174 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~174
- 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 Chenango Bridge's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Chenango Bridge's 174-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Chenango Bridge
Each reading below is measured for Chenango Bridge itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredChenango Bridge runs about 174 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
MeasuredChenango Bridge 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 Chenango Bridge is in
Chenango Bridge sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Chenango Bridge's own centroid rather than borrowed from Broome County.
What Grows in Chenango Bridge
Every plant below cleared Chenango Bridge's own zone 6a and its 174-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Chenango Bridge?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Chenango Bridge
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Chenango Bridge, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Chenango Bridge
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Chenango Bridge. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- REAL PROPERTY TAX SERVICESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- ECO-INTERNATIONAL LLCBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1008260Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- HADSALL'S AUTO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- BM 460Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- QUICKWAY #60Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- CTC OF NEW YORK INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- BERT ADAMS DISPOSALBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- MCCREDY MOTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CHENANGO VALLEY JR.- SR. HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- BURKE'S MOBILE HOME PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- CHENANGO VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICTBrownfields · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Chenango Bridge'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 Chenango Bridge.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Chenango Bridge
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Chenango Bridge
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Chenango Bridge, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 11 sites within ~10 miles of Chenango Bridge. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Chenango Bridge
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 Chenango Bridge average
Your land is one point inside Chenango Bridge
Everything above resolves to Chenango Bridge 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 Chenango Bridge Average
Chenango Bridge Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Chenango Bridge
- ●One soil character for all of Chenango Bridge
- ●Frost dates read at Chenango Bridge's scale: Apr 29 to Oct 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Chenango Bridge's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Chenango Bridge
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Chenango Bridge, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Chenango Bridge averages can't show:
We read public map data around Chenango Bridge — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Chenango Bridge average
How we know this about Chenango Bridge
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 Chenango Bridge’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 Chenango Bridge
When does frost risk typically end in Chenango Bridge?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Chenango Bridge typically lands around Apr 29, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Chenango Bridge?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Chenango Bridge typically arrives around Oct 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 6, so the watching starts about Sep 20 — about 174 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Chenango Bridge?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Chenango Bridge sees about 174 frost-free days — roughly Apr 29 through Oct 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 20 to Oct 6, about 139 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Chenango Bridge?
The federal record around Chenango Bridge runs heavier than most — 825 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (411), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Chenango Bridge?
From about Sep 20 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Chenango Bridge's scale — its 6a band and its 174-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Chenango Bridge'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 Chenango Bridge’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Chenango Bridge's own scale — its own ~174-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,567 acres it covers and 825 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Chenango Bridge's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Chenango Bridge's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 29 and Oct 20 and the ~174-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 825 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Chenango Bridge, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Chenango Bridge's boundary and the 1,567 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~174-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Chenango Bridge's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Chenango Bridgelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Chenango Bridge's 1,567 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Broome County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Broome 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 Broome County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Chenango Bridge's 1,567 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Chenango Bridge you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,567 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Chenango Bridge-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across New YorkChenango Bridge sits outside our named growing regions, so New York as a whole is its closest context here.
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