Clintondale, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Clintondale, 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 Clintondale 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 Clintondale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Clintondale — the short answer
Clintondale, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 199 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- 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
- ~199
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 6b is Clintondale's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Clintondale's 199-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Clintondale
Each reading below is measured for Clintondale itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredClintondale runs about 199 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
MeasuredClintondale sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Clintondale is in
Clintondale sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Clintondale's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Ulster County is mostly Northeastern Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Clintondale
Every plant below cleared Clintondale's own zone 6b and its 199-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Clintondale?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (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 Clintondale
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Clintondale, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Clintondale
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Clintondale. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HERTEL LANDFILLSuperfund · 1300 ft
- CLINTONDALE FIRE DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- W H WALKER & SONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- VERIZON NEW YORK, INC. (NY99012)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- M G HURD & SONS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- NYS BRIDGE AUTHORITY MHBBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- FRANK SABARESE INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- COY ORCHARDS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- AMEDEO BABOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- SAM PROPERTIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- JALARAM CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- PRISM SOLAR TECHNOLOGIESBrownfields · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Clintondale'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 Clintondale.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Clintondale
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Clintondale
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Clintondale, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Clintondale — Superfund (12 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (548 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Clintondale
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 Clintondale average
Your land is one point inside Clintondale
Everything above resolves to Clintondale as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Clintondale Average
Clintondale Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Clintondale
- ●One soil character for all of Clintondale
- ●Frost dates read at Clintondale's scale: Apr 10 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Clintondale's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Clintondale
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Clintondale, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Clintondale averages can't show:
We read public map data around Clintondale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Clintondale average
How we know this about Clintondale
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 Clintondale’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 Clintondale
When does frost risk typically end in Clintondale?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Clintondale typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Clintondale?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Clintondale 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 199 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Clintondale?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Clintondale sees about 199 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 12, about 164 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Clintondale?
The federal record around Clintondale runs heavier than most — 848 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (548), the nearest Superfund record about 0.2 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 Clintondale?
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 Clintondale's scale — its 6b band and its 199-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Clintondale'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 Clintondale’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Clintondale's own scale — its own ~199-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,099 acres it covers and 848 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Clintondale's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Clintondale's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Oct 26 and the ~199-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 848 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Clintondale, the closest Superfund record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Clintondale's boundary and the 4,099 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~199-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Clintondale 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 Clintondalelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Clintondale's 4,099 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ulster County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ulster 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 Ulster County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Clintondale's 4,099 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Clintondale you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,099 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund 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 Clintondale-wide figureread your own land →
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