Huntington Station, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Huntington 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 Huntington 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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Huntington Station — the short answer
Huntington Station, New York: USDA zone 7b, about 249 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~249
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 7b is Huntington Station's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Huntington Station's 249-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Huntington Station
Each reading below is measured for Huntington Station itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHuntington Station runs about 249 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
MeasuredHuntington Station sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Huntington Station is in
Huntington Station sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Huntington Station's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Suffolk County is mostly Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Huntington Station
Every plant below cleared Huntington Station's own zone 7b and its 249-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Huntington 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 Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Huntington Station
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Huntington Station, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Huntington Station
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Huntington Station. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 110 CLEANERSBrownfields · 350 ft
- COMMUNITY CLEANERSBrownfields · 1600 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #2725Brownfields · 1600 ft
- MERIMAC ENTERPRISES GAS STATIONBrownfields · 2100 ft
- NUZHAT SIDDIQUI DDSBrownfields · 2500 ft
- COJAK LLCBrownfields · 2500 ft
- ELEGANCE CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- 21ST CENTURY PRINTING INCBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- CITGOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR STORE 8742Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- HUNTINGTON TOWN OF HARTBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- ACME CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Huntington 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 Huntington Station.
Total Sites
3,040
within ~10 miles of Huntington Station
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
51 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Huntington Station
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Huntington Station
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Huntington Station, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Huntington Station — Nitrate (1,416 sites) and Superfund (51 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Huntington Station
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 Huntington Station average
Your land is one point inside Huntington Station
Everything above resolves to Huntington Station as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Huntington Station Average
Huntington Station Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Huntington Station
- ●One soil character for all of Huntington Station
- ●Frost dates read at Huntington Station's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Huntington Station's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Huntington Station
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Huntington Station, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Huntington Station averages can't show:
We read public map data around Huntington Station — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Huntington Station average
How we know this about Huntington 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 Huntington 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 Huntington Station
When does frost risk typically end in Huntington Station?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Huntington Station typically lands around Mar 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 Apr 13.
When is the first frost in Huntington Station?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Huntington Station typically arrives around Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 13, so the watching starts about Oct 28 — about 249 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Huntington Station?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Huntington Station sees about 249 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Nov 13, about 214 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Huntington Station?
The federal record around Huntington Station runs heavier than most — 3,040 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (1,416), the nearest Brownfields 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 Huntington Station?
From about Oct 28 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 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 Nov 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Huntington Station's scale — its 7b band and its 249-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Huntington 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 Huntington Station’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Huntington Station's own scale — its own ~249-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,505 acres it covers and 3,040 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Huntington Station's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Huntington Station's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 27 and the ~249-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 3,040 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Huntington Station, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Huntington Station's boundary and the 3,505 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~249-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Huntington Station sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Huntington Stationlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Huntington Station's 3,505 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Suffolk County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Suffolk 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 Suffolk County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Huntington Station's 3,505 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Huntington 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 3,505 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 Huntington Station-wide figureread your own land →