Kings Park, 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.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Kings Park, 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 Kings Park lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kings Park — the short answer
Kings Park, New York: USDA zone 7b, about 244 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 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~244
- 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 Kings Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kings Park's 244-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kings Park
Each reading below is measured for Kings Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKings Park runs about 244 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
MeasuredKings Park 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 Kings Park is in
Kings Park sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kings Park'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 Kings Park
Every plant below cleared Kings Park's own zone 7b and its 244-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kings Park?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 22 — 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 Kings Park
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Kings Park, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Kings Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kings Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SUNKEN MEADOW STATE PARKBrownfields · 500 ft
- KINGS PARK PSYCHIATRIC CENTERBrownfields · 500 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #8392Brownfields · 950 ft
- STATE OPERATED COMMUNITY RESIDENCE WEST AT KINGS PARKBrownfields · 1300 ft
- STATE OPERATED COMMUNITY RESIDENCE EAST AT KINGS PARKBrownfields · 1300 ft
- GAIO ALEXANDERBrownfields · 2000 ft
- RITE AID #10644Brownfields · 2500 ft
- HESS#32570Brownfields · 2600 ft
- UPTOWN CLEANERSBrownfields · 2600 ft
- S 23186. 1Nitrate · 2600 ft
- S 34460. 1Nitrate · 2600 ft
- S119207. 1Nitrate · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kings Park'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 Kings Park.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kings Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kings Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kings Park, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Kings Park — Nitrate (698 sites) and Brownfields (998 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.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Kings Park
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 Kings Park average
Your land is one point inside Kings Park
Everything above resolves to Kings Park 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 Kings Park Average
Kings Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Kings Park
- ●One soil character for all of Kings Park
- ●Frost dates read at Kings Park's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kings Park's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kings Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kings Park, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kings Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kings Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kings Park average
How we know this about Kings Park
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 Kings Park’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 Kings Park
When does frost risk typically end in Kings Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kings Park 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 Kings Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kings Park typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 244 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kings Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kings Park sees about 244 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Nov 8, about 209 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kings Park?
The federal record around Kings Park runs heavier than most — 1,876 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (998), 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 Kings Park?
From about Oct 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 Nov 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kings Park's scale — its 7b band and its 244-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kings Park'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 Kings Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Kings Park's own scale — its own ~244-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,270 acres it covers and 1,876 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kings Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kings Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 22 and the ~244-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,876 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kings Park, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kings Park's boundary and the 4,270 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~244-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Kings Park 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 Kings Parklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kings Park's 4,270 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 Kings Park's 4,270 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kings Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,270 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 Kings Park-wide figureread your own land →