Endwell, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Endwell, 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 Endwell lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Endwell — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Endwell — the short answer
Endwell, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 175 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~175
- 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 6a is Endwell's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Endwell's 175-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Endwell
Each reading below is measured for Endwell itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEndwell 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
MeasuredEndwell 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 Endwell is in
Endwell sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Endwell's own centroid rather than borrowed from Broome County.
What Grows in Endwell
Every plant below cleared Endwell'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 Endwell?
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 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Endwell
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Endwell, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Endwell
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Endwell. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BROOME REHABILITATION BIN 3349740Brownfields · 850 ft
- MAINE ENDWELL CSD - HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 1500 ft
- APPLE FOOD AND GROCERY INC #10Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #0168Brownfields · 2500 ft
- MAINE ENDWELL CSD - HOMER BRINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBrownfields · 2500 ft
- RITE AID #10790Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- EXPRESS MART #341Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- WRIGHT'S SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- MAINE ENDWELL CSD - MIDDLE SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- MIRABITO #85Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #8494Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- MIKE SHARA'S AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Endwell'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 Endwell.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Endwell
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Endwell
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Endwell, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 13 sites within ~10 miles of Endwell. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Endwell
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 Endwell average
Your land is one point inside Endwell
Everything above resolves to Endwell 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 Endwell Average
Endwell Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Endwell
- ●One soil character for all of Endwell
- ●Frost dates read at Endwell's scale: Apr 28 to Oct 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Endwell's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Endwell
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Endwell, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Endwell averages can't show:
We read public map data around Endwell — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Endwell average
How we know this about Endwell
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 Endwell’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 Endwell
When does frost risk typically end in Endwell?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Endwell typically lands around Apr 28, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Endwell?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Endwell typically arrives around Oct 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 6, so the watching starts about Sep 20 — about 175 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Endwell?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Endwell sees about 175 frost-free days — roughly Apr 28 through Oct 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 19 to Oct 6, about 140 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Endwell?
The federal record around Endwell runs heavier than most — 932 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (455), 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 Endwell?
From about Sep 20 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 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 Oct 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Endwell's scale — its 6a band and its 175-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Endwell'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 Endwell’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Endwell's own scale — its own ~175-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,396 acres it covers and 932 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Endwell's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Endwell's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 28 and Oct 20 and the ~175-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 932 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Endwell, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Endwell's boundary and the 2,396 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 Endwell's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Endwelllydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Endwell's 2,396 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Broome County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Broome 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 Broome County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Endwell's 2,396 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Endwell you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,396 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 Endwell-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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