Hoosick Falls, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Hoosick 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 Hoosick 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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Hoosick Falls — the short answer
Hoosick Falls, New York: USDA zone 5b, about 179 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~179
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 5b is Hoosick Falls's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hoosick Falls's 179-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hoosick Falls
Each reading below is measured for Hoosick Falls itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHoosick Falls 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
MeasuredHoosick Falls sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Hoosick Falls is in
Hoosick Falls sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Hoosick Falls's own centroid rather than borrowed from Rensselaer County.
What Grows in Hoosick Falls
Every plant below cleared Hoosick Falls's own zone 5b and its 179-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hoosick Falls?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 19 — 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 Hoosick Falls
Spotted lanternfly documented 25 miles from Hoosick Falls, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hoosick Falls
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hoosick Falls. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KEY BANK OF NEW YORKUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- DBA RITE AID #01088Brownfields · 200 ft
- US POSTAL SERVICE (HOOSICKFLS)Underground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- JOHN ST FLUORGLASUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- ST MARKS CHURCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- FLUORGLAS NORPLEX OAKToxics Release Inventory · 500 ft
- CUMBERLAND FARMS #3239Brownfields · 500 ft
- NYSDOT BIN 2201800Brownfields · 500 ft
- JOHN A MURPHY REGIONAL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- BOYNTONVILLE NIAGARA MOHAWKUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- CUMBERLAND FARMS INC #3239Underground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hoosick 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 Hoosick Falls.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hoosick Falls
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hoosick Falls
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hoosick Falls, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Hoosick Falls — CAFO (9 sites) and Superfund (13 sites). 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Hoosick Falls
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 Hoosick Falls average
Your land is one point inside Hoosick Falls
Everything above resolves to Hoosick Falls as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Hoosick Falls Average
Hoosick Falls Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Hoosick Falls
- ●One soil character for all of Hoosick Falls
- ●Frost dates read at Hoosick Falls's scale: Apr 23 to Oct 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hoosick Falls's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hoosick Falls
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hoosick Falls, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hoosick Falls averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hoosick Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hoosick Falls average
How we know this about Hoosick 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 Hoosick 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 Hoosick Falls
When does frost risk typically end in Hoosick Falls?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hoosick Falls typically lands around Apr 23, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Hoosick Falls?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hoosick Falls typically arrives around Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 5, so the watching starts about Sep 19 — about 179 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hoosick Falls?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hoosick Falls sees about 179 frost-free days — roughly Apr 23 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 14 to Oct 5, about 144 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hoosick Falls?
The federal record around Hoosick Falls runs heavier than most — 372 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (199), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Hoosick Falls?
From about Sep 19 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hoosick Falls's scale — its 5b band and its 179-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hoosick 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 Hoosick Falls’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hoosick Falls's own scale — its own ~179-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,023 acres it covers and 372 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hoosick Falls's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hoosick Falls's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 23 and Oct 19 and the ~179-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 372 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hoosick Falls, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hoosick Falls's boundary and the 1,023 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~179-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hoosick Falls's own centroid, the Northeastern HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Hoosick Fallslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hoosick Falls's 1,023 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Rensselaer County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Rensselaer 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 Rensselaer County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hoosick Falls's 1,023 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hoosick 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 1,023 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 Hoosick Falls-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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