Fort Salonga, 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.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Fort Salonga, 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 Fort Salonga lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Fort Salonga — the short answer
Fort Salonga, New York: USDA zone 7b, about 246 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~246
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 6K 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 Fort Salonga's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fort Salonga's 246-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fort Salonga
Each reading below is measured for Fort Salonga itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFort Salonga runs about 246 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
MeasuredFort Salonga 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 Fort Salonga is in
Fort Salonga sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Fort Salonga's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Suffolk County is mostly Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Fort Salonga
Every plant below cleared Fort Salonga's own zone 7b and its 246-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fort Salonga?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Fort Salonga
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Fort Salonga, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Fort Salonga
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fort Salonga. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CVS PHARMACY #1935Brownfields · 650 ft
- DR GLENDA SCHECHTER DDSBrownfields · 650 ft
- S 48697. 1Nitrate · 850 ft
- S 40545. 1Nitrate · 1500 ft
- BRITANNIA YACHTING CENTERBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- S 54162. 1Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- S 49439. 1Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- SMILE SALONGA CLEANER CORPORATIONBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- TAHITIA NAIL & SPABrownfields · 1.1 mi
- NORTHPORT VA MEDICAL CENTERSuperfund · 1.5 mi
- NORTHPORT VA MEDICAL CENTERBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- NORTHPORT VA MEDICAL CENTERToxics Release Inventory · 1.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fort Salonga'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 Fort Salonga.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fort Salonga
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fort Salonga
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fort Salonga, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Fort Salonga — Nitrate (526 sites) and Brownfields (697 sites). 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.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Fort Salonga
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 Fort Salonga average
Your land is one point inside Fort Salonga
Everything above resolves to Fort Salonga as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K 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 Fort Salonga Average
Fort Salonga Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Fort Salonga
- ●One soil character for all of Fort Salonga
- ●Frost dates read at Fort Salonga's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fort Salonga's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fort Salonga
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fort Salonga, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fort Salonga averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fort Salonga — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fort Salonga average
How we know this about Fort Salonga
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 Fort Salonga’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 Fort Salonga
When does frost risk typically end in Fort Salonga?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fort Salonga typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Fort Salonga?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fort Salonga typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 246 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fort Salonga?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fort Salonga sees about 246 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Nov 11, about 211 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fort Salonga?
The federal record around Fort Salonga runs heavier than most — 1,345 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (697), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Fort Salonga?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fort Salonga's scale — its 7b band and its 246-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fort Salonga'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 Fort Salonga’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Fort Salonga's own scale — its own ~246-day season between 28°F freezes, the 6,074 acres it covers and 1,345 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fort Salonga's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fort Salonga's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 25 and the ~246-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,345 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fort Salonga, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fort Salonga's boundary and the 6,074 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~246-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Fort Salonga sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Fort Salongalydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Fort Salonga's 6,074 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 Fort Salonga's 6,074 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fort Salonga you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,074 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Fort Salonga-wide figureread your own land →
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