Groveland Station, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — 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, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Groveland Station, 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 Groveland Station lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Groveland Station — the short answer
Groveland Station, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 186 days between hard freezes, across 375 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~186
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 375 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 Groveland Station's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Groveland Station's 186-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Groveland Station
Each reading below is measured for Groveland Station itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGroveland Station runs about 186 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
MeasuredGroveland Station 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 Groveland Station is in
Groveland Station sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Groveland Station's own centroid rather than borrowed from Livingston County.
What Grows in Groveland Station
Every plant below cleared Groveland Station's own zone 6a and its 186-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Groveland Station?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Groveland Station
Spotted lanternfly documented 28 miles from Groveland Station, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Groveland Station
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Groveland Station. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GROVELAND STATION AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- KREILEY KWIK MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- LV 69Nitrate · 1100 ft
- NYSDOT BIN 1043520Brownfields · 1400 ft
- NYSDOT BIN 1070100Brownfields · 2200 ft
- DIRT BIKE JUNCTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- DONALD AND NANCY AURESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- SPARTA FARMS LPCAFO · 1.6 mi
- SPARTA FARMS, LP.CAFO · 1.8 mi
- KENNEDY DAIRY FARM INCCAFO · 2.0 mi
- EDGEWOOD FARMSCAFO · 2.4 mi
- LA CASA DE LECHE, LLC.CAFO · 2.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Groveland Station'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 Groveland Station.
Total Sites
221
within ~10 miles of Groveland Station
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Groveland Station
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Groveland Station
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Groveland Station, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 15 sites within ~10 miles of Groveland Station. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
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Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Groveland Station
Everything above resolves to Groveland Station as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 375 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 Groveland Station Average
Groveland Station Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Groveland Station
- ●One soil character for all of Groveland Station
- ●Frost dates read at Groveland Station's scale: Apr 24 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Groveland Station's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Groveland Station
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Groveland Station, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Groveland Station averages can't show:
We read public map data around Groveland Station — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Groveland Station average
How we know this about Groveland Station
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 Groveland Station’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 Groveland Station
When does frost risk typically end in Groveland Station?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Groveland Station typically lands around Apr 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 May 15.
When is the first frost in Groveland Station?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Groveland Station typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 186 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Groveland Station?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Groveland Station sees about 186 frost-free days — roughly Apr 24 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 15 to Oct 13, about 151 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Groveland Station?
The federal record around Groveland Station is a meaningful one — 221 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (117), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Groveland Station?
From about Sep 27 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 Oct 27 (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 Oct 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Groveland Station's scale — its 6a band and its 186-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Groveland Station'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 Groveland Station’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Groveland Station's own scale — its own ~186-day season between 28°F freezes, the 375 acres it covers and 221 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Groveland Station's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Groveland Station's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 24 and Oct 27 and the ~186-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 221 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Groveland Station, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Groveland Station's boundary and the 375 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~186-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Groveland Station's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Groveland Stationlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Groveland Station's 375 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 Groveland Station's 375 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Groveland Station you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 375 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Groveland Station-wide figureread your own land →
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