Honeoye Falls, 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.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Honeoye Falls, 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 Falls 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 Falls — the short answer
Honeoye Falls, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Falls's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Honeoye Falls's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Honeoye Falls
Each reading below is measured for Honeoye Falls itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHoneoye Falls runs about 201 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
MeasuredHoneoye Falls 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 Falls is in
Honeoye Falls sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Honeoye Falls's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monroe County.
What Grows in Honeoye Falls
Every plant below cleared Honeoye Falls's own zone 6a and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Honeoye Falls?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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 Honeoye Falls
Spotted lanternfly documented 14 miles from Honeoye Falls, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Honeoye Falls
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Honeoye Falls. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 7-ELEVEN #40151Underground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- MO15019Nitrate · 550 ft
- TOWN OF MENDONUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- LACASA DIROBERTO LLCBrownfields · 900 ft
- STONE CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT INCToxics Release Inventory · 900 ft
- LACASA DIROBERTO, LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- ROCHESTER TELEPHONE CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- K & H PRECISION PRODUCTS INCBrownfields · 1600 ft
- GENERAL MOTORS LLCBrownfields · 1600 ft
- VILLAGE OF HONEOYE FALLS-FIRE HOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- KUMAR GASOLINE CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- GENERAL MOTORS LLC - HONEOYE FALLSBrownfields · 2000 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Honeoye Falls'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 Falls.
Total Sites
721
within ~10 miles of Honeoye Falls
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
7 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Honeoye Falls
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Honeoye Falls
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Honeoye Falls, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 10 sites within ~10 miles of Honeoye Falls. 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.
Check your specific parcel in Honeoye Falls
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 Falls
Everything above resolves to Honeoye Falls as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Falls Average
Honeoye Falls Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Honeoye Falls
- ●One soil character for all of Honeoye Falls
- ●Frost dates read at Honeoye Falls's scale: Apr 16 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Honeoye Falls's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Honeoye Falls
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Honeoye Falls, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Honeoye Falls averages can't show:
We read public map data around Honeoye Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Honeoye Falls average
How we know this about Honeoye Falls
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 Falls’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 Falls
When does frost risk typically end in Honeoye Falls?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Honeoye Falls typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Honeoye Falls?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Honeoye Falls typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Honeoye Falls?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Honeoye Falls sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 20, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Honeoye Falls?
The federal record around Honeoye Falls is a meaningful one — 721 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (343), 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 Honeoye Falls?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Honeoye Falls's scale — its 6a band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Honeoye Falls'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 Falls’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Honeoye Falls's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,628 acres it covers and 721 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Honeoye Falls's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Honeoye Falls's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Nov 3 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 721 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Honeoye Falls, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Honeoye Falls's boundary and the 1,628 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Honeoye Falls's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Honeoye Fallslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Honeoye Falls's 1,628 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 Honeoye Falls's 1,628 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Honeoye Falls you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,628 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 Honeoye Falls-wide figureread your own land →
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