Greece, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Greece, 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 Greece 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 Greece — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Greece — the short answer
Greece, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- 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 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 6b is Greece's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Greece's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Greece
Each reading below is measured for Greece itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGreece runs about 213 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
MeasuredGreece sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Greece is in
Greece sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Greece's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monroe County.
What Grows in Greece
Every plant below cleared Greece's own zone 6b and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Greece?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 9 — 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 Greece
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Greece, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Greece
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Greece. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WEGMANS FOOD MARKET #12 RIDGEMONTBrownfields · 600 ft
- DBA RITE AID #10869Brownfields · 1300 ft
- ROWE PHOTO & VIDEOBrownfields · 1500 ft
- MOBIL R/S #10180Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- BUCKMAN'SUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- M P MART INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- KMART CORPORATION #3295Brownfields · 2000 ft
- TOWN OF GREECEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- PENNEY OPCO LLC 2490Brownfields · 2500 ft
- KWIK FILL M0075/128Underground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #16552Brownfields · 2600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Greece'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 Greece.
Total Sites
2,054
within ~10 miles of Greece
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
16 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Greece
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Greece
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 Greece
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 Greece average
Your land is one point inside Greece
Everything above resolves to Greece as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Greece Average
Greece Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Greece
- ●One soil character for all of Greece
- ●Frost dates read at Greece's scale: Apr 10 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Greece's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Greece
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Greece, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Greece averages can't show:
We read public map data around Greece — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Greece average
How we know this about Greece
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 Greece’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 Greece
When does frost risk typically end in Greece?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Greece 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 Greece?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Greece typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Greece?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Greece sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 26, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Greece?
The federal record around Greece is a meaningful one — 2,054 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,095), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Greece?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Greece's scale — its 6b band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Greece'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 Greece’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Greece's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,799 acres it covers and 2,054 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Greece's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Greece's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Nov 9 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,054 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Greece, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Greece's boundary and the 2,799 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Greece's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Greecelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Greece's 2,799 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Monroe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Monroe 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 Monroe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Greece's 2,799 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Greece you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,799 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 Greece-wide figureread your own land →
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