Fleischmanns, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Fleischmanns, 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 Fleischmanns lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Fleischmanns — the short answer
Fleischmanns, New York: USDA zone 5b, about 148 days between hard freezes, across 419 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~148
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 419 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 5b is Fleischmanns's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fleischmanns's 148-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fleischmanns
Each reading below is measured for Fleischmanns itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFleischmanns runs about 148 days between hard freezes — a short growing season.
Long-maturing crops like melons, sweet potatoes, and winter squash can run out of runway before the first hard freeze, ripening late or not at all.
Lead with fast-maturing varieties, and stretch the season on both ends with cold frames, low tunnels, or a greenhouse.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredFleischmanns sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Fleischmanns is in
Fleischmanns sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Fleischmanns's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Delaware County is mostly Northern Allegheny Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Fleischmanns
Every plant below cleared Fleischmanns's own zone 5b and its 148-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fleischmanns?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Short seasons reward decisiveness — quick-maturing varieties late, hardy greens under cover, and next year’s garlic in the ground before it closes.
Documented around Fleischmanns
Spotted lanternfly documented 11 miles from Fleischmanns, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Fleischmanns
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fleischmanns. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FLEISCHMANNS SERVICE CENTER NYSEGUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- VERIZON NEW YORK INC. (NY99232)Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- KIRCH PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- WADLER BROTHERS INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- VW PARTS INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- BELL ATLANTICUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- YESHIVA METZYONIM D'SATMARUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- FORMER EDWARDS SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- SAM'S COUNTRY STORE, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- FLAGSTONE INNUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- D 199Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- BELLEAYRE MOUNTAINBrownfields · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fleischmanns'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 Fleischmanns.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fleischmanns
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fleischmanns
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fleischmanns, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 52 sites within ~10 miles of Fleischmanns. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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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 Fleischmanns average
Your land is one point inside Fleischmanns
Everything above resolves to Fleischmanns as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 419 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 Fleischmanns Average
Fleischmanns Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Fleischmanns
- ●One soil character for all of Fleischmanns
- ●Frost dates read at Fleischmanns's scale: May 12 to Oct 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fleischmanns's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fleischmanns
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Three things about your lot that Fleischmanns averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fleischmanns — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fleischmanns average
How we know this about Fleischmanns
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 Fleischmanns’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 Fleischmanns
When does frost risk typically end in Fleischmanns?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fleischmanns typically lands around May 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 Jun 2.
When is the first frost in Fleischmanns?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fleischmanns typically arrives around Oct 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 23, so the watching starts about Sep 7 — about 148 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fleischmanns?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fleischmanns sees about 148 frost-free days — roughly May 12 through Oct 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 2 to Sep 23, about 113 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fleischmanns?
The federal record around Fleischmanns shows 82 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (52), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do gardeners stretch the season in Fleischmanns?
With about 148 frost-free days between hard freezes, Fleischmanns rewards the classic extension moves: floating row cover buys roughly two to four extra weeks at each shoulder — on this season that is a working window nearer 176 to 204 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 12 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Fleischmanns's scale — its 5b band and its 148-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fleischmanns'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 Fleischmanns’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Fleischmanns's own scale — its own ~148-day season between 28°F freezes, the 419 acres it covers and 82 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fleischmanns's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fleischmanns's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 12 and Oct 7 and the ~148-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 82 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fleischmanns, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fleischmanns's boundary and the 419 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~148-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Fleischmanns sits in the Northeastern Highlands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Fleischmannslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Fleischmanns's 419 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Delaware County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Delaware 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 Delaware County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fleischmanns's 419 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fleischmanns you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 419 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 Fleischmanns-wide figureread your own land →
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