Eggertsville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Eggertsville, 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 Eggertsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Eggertsville — the short answer
Eggertsville, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Eggertsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eggertsville's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eggertsville
Each reading below is measured for Eggertsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEggertsville runs about 215 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
MeasuredEggertsville 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 Eggertsville is in
Eggertsville sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eggertsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Erie County.
What Grows in Eggertsville
Every plant below cleared Eggertsville's own zone 6b and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eggertsville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 12 — 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 Eggertsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Eggertsville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Eggertsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eggertsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FORMER SIBLEYS BUILDINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- ST. BENEDICT'S CHURCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- MIKE'S AUTO REPAIR (SUNOCO)Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- NIAGARA MOHAWK A NATIONAL GRID CO - SUBSBrownfields · 1500 ft
- BRUNNER'S TAVERNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- PETRO USA #150Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- BRICELAND INSURANCE COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- ERIE COUNTY PARKS (GROVER CLEV)Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- BOB MASON SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- FORMER GAS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- SCHMITT'S ROBO MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- KWIK FILL M0322/322Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eggertsville'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 Eggertsville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eggertsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eggertsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eggertsville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Eggertsville — Superfund (63 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (219 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Eggertsville
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 Eggertsville average
Your land is one point inside Eggertsville
Everything above resolves to Eggertsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Eggertsville Average
Eggertsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Eggertsville
- ●One soil character for all of Eggertsville
- ●Frost dates read at Eggertsville's scale: Apr 11 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eggertsville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eggertsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eggertsville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eggertsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eggertsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eggertsville average
How we know this about Eggertsville
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 Eggertsville’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 Eggertsville
When does frost risk typically end in Eggertsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eggertsville typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Eggertsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eggertsville typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eggertsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eggertsville sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 29, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eggertsville?
The federal record around Eggertsville runs heavier than most — 3,171 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,581), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Eggertsville?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eggertsville's scale — its 6b band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eggertsville'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 Eggertsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Eggertsville's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,831 acres it covers and 3,171 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eggertsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Eggertsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Nov 12 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 3,171 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eggertsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eggertsville's boundary and the 1,831 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Eggertsville's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Eggertsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eggertsville's 1,831 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Erie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Erie 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 Erie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eggertsville's 1,831 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eggertsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,831 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Eggertsville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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