Hunt, 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.
These conditions suit cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Hunt, 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 Hunt lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hunt — the short answer
Hunt, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 168 days between hard freezes, across 76 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 4
- 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
- ~168
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 76 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 Hunt's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hunt's 168-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hunt
Each reading below is measured for Hunt itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHunt runs about 168 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
MeasuredHunt 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 Hunt is in
Hunt sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hunt's own centroid rather than borrowed from Livingston County.
What Grows in Hunt
Every plant below cleared Hunt's own zone 6a and its 168-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hunt?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 4 (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. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Hunt
Spotted lanternfly documented 23 miles from Hunt, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hunt
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hunt. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GORDON WOOD PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- KESHEQUA CENTRAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- YANSICK LUMBER COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- TOWN OF PORTAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- PRENTICE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- WILLET FARMS, INCCAFO · 1.8 mi
- LV 542Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- DALTON CORNERS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- BUGMAN & SON'S INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- AGWAY ENERGY PRODUCTS KEY PUMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- WO 349Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- ONCE AGAIN NUT BUTTER COLLECTIVE INCBrownfields · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hunt'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 Hunt.
Total Sites
131
within ~10 miles of Hunt
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hunt
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hunt
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hunt, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Hunt — CAFO (24 sites) and Nitrate (38 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Hunt
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 Hunt
Everything above resolves to Hunt as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 76 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 Hunt Average
Hunt Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Hunt
- ●One soil character for all of Hunt
- ●Frost dates read at Hunt's scale: May 4 to Oct 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hunt's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hunt
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hunt, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Hunt — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hunt average
How we know this about Hunt
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 Hunt’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 Hunt
When does frost risk typically end in Hunt?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hunt typically lands around May 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Hunt?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hunt 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 168 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hunt?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hunt sees about 168 frost-free days — roughly May 4 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 25 to Oct 5, about 133 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hunt?
The federal record around Hunt shows 131 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (50), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Hunt?
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 Hunt's scale — its 6a band and its 168-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hunt'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 Hunt’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hunt's own scale — its own ~168-day season between 28°F freezes, the 76 acres it covers and 131 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hunt's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hunt's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 4 and Oct 19 and the ~168-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 131 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hunt, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hunt's boundary and the 76 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~168-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hunt's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Huntlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hunt's 76 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 Hunt's 76 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hunt you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 76 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 Hunt-wide figureread your own land →
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