East Farmingdale, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in East Farmingdale, 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 East Farmingdale lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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East Farmingdale — the short answer
East Farmingdale, New York: USDA zone 7b, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 7b is East Farmingdale's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against East Farmingdale's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in East Farmingdale
Each reading below is measured for East Farmingdale itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEast Farmingdale runs about 243 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
MeasuredEast Farmingdale sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 East Farmingdale is in
East Farmingdale sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at East Farmingdale's own centroid rather than borrowed from Suffolk County.
What Grows in East Farmingdale
Every plant below cleared East Farmingdale's own zone 7b and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in East Farmingdale?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around East Farmingdale
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from East Farmingdale, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near East Farmingdale
Closest first, within ~10 miles of East Farmingdale. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- R D PRINTING ASSOCIATESBrownfields · 1200 ft
- HOME DEPOT #1267Brownfields · 2000 ft
- S 74587. 1Nitrate · 2200 ft
- S 75034. 2Nitrate · 2200 ft
- S 74586. 1Nitrate · 2200 ft
- S 87041. 1Nitrate · 2200 ft
- S 75033. 1Nitrate · 2200 ft
- FAIRCHILD REPUBLIC COBrownfields · 2400 ft
- MISONIX INCBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- JAMAR PRINTING INCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- ACTION ENVELOPE & PRINTING CO INCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- RUTTURA & SONS CONSTRUCT CO INCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from East Farmingdale'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 East Farmingdale.
Total Sites
4,316
within ~10 miles of East Farmingdale
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
61 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of East Farmingdale
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of East Farmingdale
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around East Farmingdale, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of East Farmingdale — Nitrate (2,282 sites) and Superfund (61 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in East Farmingdale
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 East Farmingdale
Everything above resolves to East Farmingdale as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 East Farmingdale Average
East Farmingdale Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across East Farmingdale
- ●One soil character for all of East Farmingdale
- ●Frost dates read at East Farmingdale's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not East Farmingdale's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in East Farmingdale
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in East Farmingdale, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that East Farmingdale averages can't show:
We read public map data around East Farmingdale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the East Farmingdale average
How we know this about East Farmingdale
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 East Farmingdale’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 East Farmingdale
When does frost risk typically end in East Farmingdale?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in East Farmingdale typically lands around Mar 25, 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 Apr 15.
When is the first frost in East Farmingdale?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in East Farmingdale typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in East Farmingdale?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, East Farmingdale sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Nov 9, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in East Farmingdale?
The federal record around East Farmingdale runs heavier than most — 4,316 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (2,282), the nearest Brownfields 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 East Farmingdale?
From about Oct 24 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 Nov 23 (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 Nov 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at East Farmingdale's scale — its 7b band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of East Farmingdale'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 East Farmingdale’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at East Farmingdale's own scale — its own ~243-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,785 acres it covers and 4,316 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- East Farmingdale's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- East Farmingdale's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 23 and the ~243-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 4,316 documented contamination sites on the federal record near East Farmingdale, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- East Farmingdale's boundary and the 4,785 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at East Farmingdale's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of East Farmingdalelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so East Farmingdale's 4,785 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Suffolk County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Suffolk 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 Suffolk County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among East Farmingdale's 4,785 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of East Farmingdale you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,785 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 East Farmingdale-wide figureread your own land →