Galeville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Galeville, 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 Galeville 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 Galeville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Galeville — the short answer
Galeville, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 802 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~209
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 802 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 Galeville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Galeville's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Galeville
Each reading below is measured for Galeville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGaleville runs about 209 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
MeasuredGaleville 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 Galeville is in
Galeville sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Galeville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Onondaga County.
What Grows in Galeville
Every plant below cleared Galeville's own zone 6a and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Galeville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Galeville
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Galeville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Galeville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Galeville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BYRNE DAIRY GALEVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- LIVERPOOL LITHO LTDBrownfields · 400 ft
- GALEVILLE PLAZAUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- TINO'S MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- WILL & BAUMER CANDLE COMPANY LLCBrownfields · 1300 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #10325Brownfields · 1300 ft
- ONONDAGA PARKWAY APARTMENTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- BRESEE CHEVROLET CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP SPILL 2304167 AT 629 OLD LIVERPOOL RDBrownfields · 2100 ft
- WHEN RADIO STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- MOBIL S/S 08-388Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR STORE 4228Brownfields · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Galeville'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 Galeville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Galeville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Galeville
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Galeville
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 Galeville average
Your land is one point inside Galeville
Everything above resolves to Galeville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 802 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 Galeville Average
Galeville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Galeville
- ●One soil character for all of Galeville
- ●Frost dates read at Galeville's scale: Apr 10 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Galeville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Galeville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Galeville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Galeville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Galeville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Galeville average
How we know this about Galeville
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 Galeville’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 Galeville
When does frost risk typically end in Galeville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Galeville typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Galeville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Galeville typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Galeville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Galeville sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 22, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Galeville?
The federal record around Galeville is a meaningful one — 1,997 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (972), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Galeville?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Galeville's scale — its 6a band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Galeville'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 Galeville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Galeville's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 802 acres it covers and 1,997 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Galeville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Galeville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Nov 5 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,997 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Galeville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Galeville's boundary and the 802 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Galeville's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Galevillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Galeville's 802 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Onondaga County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Onondaga 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 Onondaga County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Galeville's 802 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Galeville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 802 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Galeville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across New YorkGaleville sits outside our named growing regions, so New York as a whole is its closest context here.