Fowlerville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Fowlerville, 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 Fowlerville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Fowlerville — the short answer
Fowlerville, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 197 days between hard freezes, across 577 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~197
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 577 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 Fowlerville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fowlerville's 197-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fowlerville
Each reading below is measured for Fowlerville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFowlerville runs about 197 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
MeasuredFowlerville 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 Fowlerville is in
Fowlerville sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Fowlerville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Livingston County is mostly Northern Allegheny Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Fowlerville
Every plant below cleared Fowlerville's own zone 6a and its 197-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fowlerville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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 Fowlerville
Spotted lanternfly documented 18 miles from Fowlerville, first recorded 2018. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Fowlerville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fowlerville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BATZING FARMS INCCAFO · 0.9 mi
- KENNEDY FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- GROWMARK FS, LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- WILLIAM KORTH DAIRY FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- BATZING FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- TOWN OF YORKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- LV 541Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- YORK CENTER #53 SUBBrownfields · 2.7 mi
- LCWSA CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICTPFAS · 2.8 mi
- GENESEO VILLAGEPFAS · 2.8 mi
- EGTS- ANDERSON GATEBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- LAWNEL FARMS, INC.CAFO · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fowlerville'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 Fowlerville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fowlerville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fowlerville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fowlerville, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 37 sites within ~10 miles of Fowlerville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Fowlerville
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 Fowlerville average
Your land is one point inside Fowlerville
Everything above resolves to Fowlerville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 577 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 Fowlerville Average
Fowlerville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Fowlerville
- ●One soil character for all of Fowlerville
- ●Frost dates read at Fowlerville's scale: Apr 18 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fowlerville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fowlerville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fowlerville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fowlerville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fowlerville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fowlerville average
How we know this about Fowlerville
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 Fowlerville’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 Fowlerville
When does frost risk typically end in Fowlerville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fowlerville typically lands around Apr 18, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Fowlerville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fowlerville typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 197 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fowlerville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fowlerville sees about 197 frost-free days — roughly Apr 18 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 9 to Oct 18, about 162 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fowlerville?
The federal record around Fowlerville is a meaningful one — 356 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (163), the nearest CAFO record about 0.9 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 Fowlerville?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fowlerville's scale — its 6a band and its 197-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fowlerville'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 Fowlerville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Fowlerville's own scale — its own ~197-day season between 28°F freezes, the 577 acres it covers and 356 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fowlerville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fowlerville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 18 and Nov 1 and the ~197-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 356 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fowlerville, the closest CAFO record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fowlerville's boundary and the 577 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~197-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Fowlerville sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Fowlervillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Fowlerville's 577 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Livingston County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Livingston 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 Livingston County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fowlerville's 577 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fowlerville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 577 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest CAFO record about 0.9 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 Fowlerville-wide figureread your own land →
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