Coxsackie, 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.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Coxsackie, 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 Coxsackie lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Coxsackie — the short answer
Coxsackie, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- 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 6a is Coxsackie's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Coxsackie's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Coxsackie
Each reading below is measured for Coxsackie itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCoxsackie runs about 201 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
MeasuredCoxsackie 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 Coxsackie is in
Coxsackie sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Coxsackie's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Greene County is mostly Northern Allegheny Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Coxsackie
Every plant below cleared Coxsackie's own zone 6a and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Coxsackie?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Coxsackie
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Coxsackie, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Coxsackie
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Coxsackie. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VERMILYEA'S TRUE VALUE HARDWAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- COXSACKIE FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- NYSDEC - AMERICAN VALVESuperfund · 1500 ft
- NYSDEC - AMERICAN VALVEBrownfields · 1500 ft
- ST. MARY'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- COXSACKIE-ATHENS CENTRAL SCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- COXSACKIE ATHENS CENTRAL SCHOOLBrownfields · 2500 ft
- TOWN OF COXSACKIE HWY DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- COXSACKIE YACHT CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- VILLAGE OF COXSACKIEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- DUCOMMUN AEROSTRUCTURES NEW YORK INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- STEWART'S SHOP # 120Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Coxsackie'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 Coxsackie.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Coxsackie
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Coxsackie
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Coxsackie, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Coxsackie — CAFO (8 sites) and Superfund (8 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Coxsackie
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Coxsackie
Everything above resolves to Coxsackie 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 Coxsackie Average
Coxsackie Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Coxsackie
- ●One soil character for all of Coxsackie
- ●Frost dates read at Coxsackie's scale: Apr 12 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Coxsackie's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Coxsackie
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Coxsackie, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Coxsackie averages can't show:
We read public map data around Coxsackie — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Coxsackie average
How we know this about Coxsackie
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 Coxsackie’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 Coxsackie
When does frost risk typically end in Coxsackie?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Coxsackie typically lands around Apr 12, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Coxsackie?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Coxsackie typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Coxsackie?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Coxsackie sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 16, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Coxsackie?
The federal record around Coxsackie is a meaningful one — 398 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (213), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Coxsackie?
From about Sep 30 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Coxsackie's scale — its 6a band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Coxsackie'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 Coxsackie’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Coxsackie's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,389 acres it covers and 398 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Coxsackie's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Coxsackie's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Oct 30 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 398 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Coxsackie, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Coxsackie's boundary and the 1,389 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Coxsackie 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 Coxsackielydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Coxsackie's 1,389 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Greene County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Greene 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 Greene County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Coxsackie's 1,389 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Coxsackie you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,389 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Coxsackie-wide figureread your own land →