Lake Mohegan, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lake Mohegan, 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 Lake Mohegan lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Lake Mohegan — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lake Mohegan — the short answer
Lake Mohegan, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- 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 6b is Lake Mohegan's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lake Mohegan's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lake Mohegan
Each reading below is measured for Lake Mohegan itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLake Mohegan runs about 215 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
MeasuredLake Mohegan sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Lake Mohegan is in
Lake Mohegan sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lake Mohegan's own centroid rather than borrowed from Westchester County.
What Grows in Lake Mohegan
Every plant below cleared Lake Mohegan's own zone 6b and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lake Mohegan?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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 Lake Mohegan
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Lake Mohegan, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lake Mohegan
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lake Mohegan. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CVS PHARMACY #2550Brownfields · 2100 ft
- LAKELAND COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- MIDDLE FALLS LINE GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HANNAWA FALLS VOL. FIRE DEPT.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- ACME #2830Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- MR CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- PHOENIX ACADEMYBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- NYSDEC SPILL #1010260 R 3Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- WALMART #2531Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- IMAGE CLEANERSBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- HOME DEPOT USA INC HD1251Brownfields · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lake Mohegan'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 Lake Mohegan.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lake Mohegan
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lake Mohegan
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lake Mohegan, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lake Mohegan — PFAS (12 sites) and Superfund (9 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Lake Mohegan
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 Lake Mohegan average
Your land is one point inside Lake Mohegan
Everything above resolves to Lake Mohegan 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 Lake Mohegan Average
Lake Mohegan Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lake Mohegan
- ●One soil character for all of Lake Mohegan
- ●Frost dates read at Lake Mohegan's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lake Mohegan's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lake Mohegan
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lake Mohegan, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lake Mohegan averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lake Mohegan — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lake Mohegan average
How we know this about Lake Mohegan
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 Lake Mohegan’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 Lake Mohegan
When does frost risk typically end in Lake Mohegan?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Mohegan typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Lake Mohegan?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Mohegan typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lake Mohegan?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lake Mohegan sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 23, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lake Mohegan?
The federal record around Lake Mohegan runs heavier than most — 544 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (272), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles 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 Lake Mohegan?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lake Mohegan's scale — its 6b band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lake Mohegan'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 Lake Mohegan’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lake Mohegan's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,848 acres it covers and 544 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lake Mohegan's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lake Mohegan's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 6 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 544 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lake Mohegan, the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lake Mohegan's boundary and the 1,848 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lake Mohegan's own centroid, the Northeastern Coastal ZoneUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lake Moheganlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lake Mohegan's 1,848 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Westchester County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Westchester 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 Westchester County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lake Mohegan's 1,848 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lake Mohegan you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,848 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles 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 Lake Mohegan-wide figureread your own land →