Conesus, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Conesus, 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 Conesus lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Conesus — the short answer
Conesus, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 175 days between hard freezes, across 678 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~175
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 678 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 Conesus's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Conesus's 175-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Conesus
Each reading below is measured for Conesus itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredConesus runs about 175 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
MeasuredConesus 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 Conesus is in
Conesus sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Conesus's own centroid rather than borrowed from Livingston County.
What Grows in Conesus
Every plant below cleared Conesus's own zone 6a and its 175-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Conesus?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Conesus
Spotted lanternfly documented 30 miles from Conesus, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Conesus
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Conesus. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BQC CONSTRUCTION CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- TOWN OF CONESUSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- LIVINGSTON COUNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- CLARK ROAD MERCURYSuperfund · 1.0 mi
- CLARK RD MERCURY SITEBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- LV 838Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- MARGIE'S DELIUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- JANSEN MARINABrownfields · 2.1 mi
- LIVINGSTON CO HWY DEPT BIN 3316490Brownfields · 2.3 mi
- SMITH BOYS JANSEN MARINE OF CONESUS LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- EAGLE CREST VINEYARDS LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP P 6945 CR-71 SPILL 2401199Brownfields · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Conesus'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 Conesus.
Total Sites
204
within ~10 miles of Conesus
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Conesus
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Conesus
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Conesus, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 11 sites within ~10 miles of Conesus. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Conesus
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 Conesus average
Your land is one point inside Conesus
Everything above resolves to Conesus as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 678 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 Conesus Average
Conesus Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Conesus
- ●One soil character for all of Conesus
- ●Frost dates read at Conesus's scale: Apr 30 to Oct 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Conesus's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Conesus
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Three things about your lot that Conesus averages can't show:
We read public map data around Conesus — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Conesus average
How we know this about Conesus
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 Conesus’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 Conesus
When does frost risk typically end in Conesus?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Conesus typically lands around Apr 30, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Conesus?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Conesus typically arrives around Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 8, so the watching starts about Sep 22 — about 175 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Conesus?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Conesus sees about 175 frost-free days — roughly Apr 30 through Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 21 to Oct 8, about 140 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Conesus?
The federal record around Conesus is a meaningful one — 204 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (112), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Conesus?
From about Sep 22 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Conesus's scale — its 6a band and its 175-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Conesus'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 Conesus’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Conesus's own scale — its own ~175-day season between 28°F freezes, the 678 acres it covers and 204 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Conesus's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Conesus's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 30 and Oct 22 and the ~175-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 204 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Conesus, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Conesus's boundary and the 678 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~175-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Conesus's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Conesuslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Conesus's 678 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 Conesus's 678 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Conesus you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 678 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Conesus-wide figureread your own land →