Claverack-Red Mills, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Claverack-Red Mills, no two yards are alike.
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Claverack-Red Mills — the short answer
Claverack-Red Mills, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 195 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~195
- 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 Claverack-Red Mills's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Claverack-Red Mills's 195-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Claverack-Red Mills
Each reading below is measured for Claverack-Red Mills itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredClaverack-Red Mills runs about 195 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
MeasuredClaverack-Red Mills 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 Claverack-Red Mills is in
Claverack-Red Mills sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Claverack-Red Mills's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Columbia County is mostly Northeastern Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Claverack-Red Mills
Every plant below cleared Claverack-Red Mills's own zone 6a and its 195-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Claverack-Red Mills?
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 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Claverack-Red Mills
Spotted lanternfly documented 8 miles from Claverack-Red Mills, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Claverack-Red Mills
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Claverack-Red Mills. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BELLS POND XTRA MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- CLAVERACK XTRA MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- PHILMONT LEASING CORP.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- JEFFRUNE LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- TOWN OF CLAVERACKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- NEW YORK STATE POLICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- GREENPORT WD NO1PFAS · 1.6 mi
- HUDSON CITYPFAS · 1.6 mi
- HUDSON VALLEY ACADEMY(OCKAWAMICK SCHOOL SITE)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- BACCAROSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- CLAVERACK CITGOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1018050 - RTE 23B OVER CLAVERACK CREEKBrownfields · 1.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Claverack-Red Mills'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 Claverack-Red Mills.
Total Sites
345
within ~10 miles of Claverack-Red Mills
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
7 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Claverack-Red Mills
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Claverack-Red Mills
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Claverack-Red Mills, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Claverack-Red Mills — Superfund (7 sites) and CAFO (4 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
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Your land is one point inside Claverack-Red Mills
Everything above resolves to Claverack-Red Mills 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 Claverack-Red Mills Average
Claverack-Red Mills Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Claverack-Red Mills
- ●One soil character for all of Claverack-Red Mills
- ●Frost dates read at Claverack-Red Mills's scale: Apr 14 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Claverack-Red Mills's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Claverack-Red Mills
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Claverack-Red Mills, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Claverack-Red Mills averages can't show:
We read public map data around Claverack-Red Mills — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Claverack-Red Mills
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 Claverack-Red Mills’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 Claverack-Red Mills
When does frost risk typically end in Claverack-Red Mills?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Claverack-Red Mills typically lands around Apr 14, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Claverack-Red Mills?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Claverack-Red Mills typically arrives around Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 12, so the watching starts about Sep 26 — about 195 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Claverack-Red Mills?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Claverack-Red Mills sees about 195 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 12, about 160 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Claverack-Red Mills?
The federal record around Claverack-Red Mills is a meaningful one — 345 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (206), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Claverack-Red Mills?
From about Sep 26 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Claverack-Red Mills's scale — its 6a band and its 195-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Claverack-Red Mills'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 Claverack-Red Mills’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Claverack-Red Mills's own scale — its own ~195-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,928 acres it covers and 345 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Claverack-Red Mills's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Claverack-Red Mills's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Oct 26 and the ~195-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 345 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Claverack-Red Mills, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Claverack-Red Mills's boundary and the 1,928 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~195-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Claverack-Red Mills 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 Claverack-Red Millslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Claverack-Red Mills's 1,928 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Columbia County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Columbia 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 Columbia County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Claverack-Red Mills's 1,928 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Claverack-Red Mills you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,928 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Claverack-Red Mills-wide figureread your own land →
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