Honeoye, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
On paper, cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Honeoye, 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 Honeoye lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Honeoye — the short answer
Honeoye, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 179 days between hard freezes, across 797 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~179
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 797 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 Honeoye's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Honeoye's 179-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Honeoye
Each reading below is measured for Honeoye itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHoneoye runs about 179 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
MeasuredHoneoye 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 Honeoye is in
Honeoye sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Honeoye's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ontario County.
What Grows in Honeoye
Every plant below cleared Honeoye's own zone 6a and its 179-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Honeoye?
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 30; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Honeoye
Spotted lanternfly documented 26 miles from Honeoye, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Honeoye
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Honeoye. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STONE CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT INCORPORATEDBrownfields · 450 ft
- ROCHESTER CUSTOM METAL, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- KWIK FILL MOO49-046Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- STONE CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- TOWN OF RICHMONDUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- 7-ELEVEN #35081Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- OT 46Nitrate · 1000 ft
- ADVANTAGE MACHINEBrownfields · 1100 ft
- ADVANTAGE METAL WORKSBrownfields · 1100 ft
- BALD HILL AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- A P M AMERICAN PRECISION MFGBrownfields · 1300 ft
- RICHMOND AUTOMOTIVE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Honeoye'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 Honeoye.
Total Sites
172
within ~10 miles of Honeoye
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Honeoye
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Honeoye
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Honeoye
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 Honeoye
Everything above resolves to Honeoye as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 797 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 Honeoye Average
Honeoye Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Honeoye
- ●One soil character for all of Honeoye
- ●Frost dates read at Honeoye's scale: Apr 27 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Honeoye's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Honeoye
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Honeoye, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Honeoye averages can't show:
We read public map data around Honeoye — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Honeoye average
How we know this about Honeoye
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 Honeoye’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 Honeoye
When does frost risk typically end in Honeoye?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Honeoye typically lands around Apr 27, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Honeoye?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Honeoye typically arrives around Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 9, so the watching starts about Sep 23 — about 179 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Honeoye?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Honeoye sees about 179 frost-free days — roughly Apr 27 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 18 to Oct 9, about 144 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Honeoye?
The federal record around Honeoye is a meaningful one — 172 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (92), the nearest Brownfields 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 Honeoye?
From about Sep 23 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Honeoye's scale — its 6a band and its 179-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Honeoye'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 Honeoye’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Honeoye's own scale — its own ~179-day season between 28°F freezes, the 797 acres it covers and 172 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Honeoye's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Honeoye's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 27 and Oct 23 and the ~179-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 172 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Honeoye, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Honeoye's boundary and the 797 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~179-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Honeoye's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Honeoyelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Honeoye's 797 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ontario County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ontario 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 Ontario County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Honeoye's 797 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Honeoye you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 797 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Honeoye-wide figureread your own land →
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