East Hampton North, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in East Hampton North, 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 Hampton North 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 Hampton North — the short answer
East Hampton North, New York: USDA zone 7b, about 234 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~234
- 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 7b is East Hampton North's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against East Hampton North's 234-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in East Hampton North
Each reading below is measured for East Hampton North itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEast Hampton North runs about 234 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 Hampton North 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 Hampton North is in
East Hampton North sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at East Hampton North's own centroid rather than borrowed from Suffolk County.
What Grows in East Hampton North
Every plant below cleared East Hampton North's own zone 7b and its 234-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in East Hampton North?
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 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 20 — 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 Hampton North
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from East Hampton North, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near East Hampton North
Closest first, within ~10 miles of East Hampton North. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- S 78310. 1Nitrate · 1600 ft
- S 31653. 1Nitrate · 1900 ft
- BALCUNS SERVICE CENTERBrownfields · 2100 ft
- S 7570. 1Nitrate · 2100 ft
- EAST END ASSOCBrownfields · 2100 ft
- GSG THREE MILE LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- NORTH MAIN ST CLEANERSBrownfields · 2300 ft
- EAST HAMPTON CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- REEDS PHOTOSHOP + STUDIO INCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- SCHENK FUELS SERVICESBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #5063Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- FORMER STAR CLEANERS C/O DONNA COLLINSBrownfields · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from East Hampton North'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 Hampton North.
Total Sites
301
within ~10 miles of East Hampton North
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of East Hampton North
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of East Hampton North
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around East Hampton North, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 234 sites within ~10 miles of East Hampton North. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in East Hampton North
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 East Hampton North average
Your land is one point inside East Hampton North
Everything above resolves to East Hampton North 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 East Hampton North Average
East Hampton North Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across East Hampton North
- ●One soil character for all of East Hampton North
- ●Frost dates read at East Hampton North's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not East Hampton North's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in East Hampton North
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in East Hampton North, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that East Hampton North averages can't show:
We read public map data around East Hampton North — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the East Hampton North average
How we know this about East Hampton North
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 Hampton North’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 Hampton North
When does frost risk typically end in East Hampton North?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in East Hampton North typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in East Hampton North?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in East Hampton North typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 234 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in East Hampton North?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, East Hampton North sees about 234 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Nov 6, about 199 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in East Hampton North?
The federal record around East Hampton North is a meaningful one — 301 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (234), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 East Hampton North?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at East Hampton North's scale — its 7b band and its 234-day season. Your yard writes its own version of East Hampton North'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 Hampton North’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at East Hampton North's own scale — its own ~234-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,566 acres it covers and 301 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- East Hampton North's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- East Hampton North's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 20 and the ~234-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 301 documented contamination sites on the federal record near East Hampton North, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- East Hampton North's boundary and the 3,566 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~234-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at East Hampton North's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of East Hampton Northlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so East Hampton North's 3,566 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 Hampton North's 3,566 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of East Hampton North you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,566 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Hampton North-wide figureread your own land →