Livingston Manor, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Livingston Manor, 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 Livingston Manor lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Livingston Manor — the short answer
Livingston Manor, New York: USDA zone 5b, about 163 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~163
- 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 5b is Livingston Manor's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Livingston Manor's 163-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Livingston Manor
Each reading below is measured for Livingston Manor itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLivingston Manor runs about 163 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
MeasuredLivingston Manor 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 Livingston Manor is in
Livingston Manor sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Livingston Manor's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sullivan County.
What Grows in Livingston Manor
Every plant below cleared Livingston Manor's own zone 5b and its 163-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Livingston Manor?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Livingston Manor
Spotted lanternfly documented 17 miles from Livingston Manor, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Livingston Manor
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Livingston Manor. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SULLIVAN CO - COUNTY BRIDGE 249 BIN 3356100Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- SULLIVAN COUNTY BRIDGE 181 BIN 3356060Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- 100 MAIN STREETUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- SULLIVAN CO - COUNTY BRIDGE 341 BIN 3356290Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- OWL FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- KORTHS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- LIVINGSTON MANOR CENT.SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- LIVINGSTON MANOR CENTRAL SCHOOLBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- FALLS POULTRY CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- HEMLOCK RIDGE APARTMENTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- NYSDOT BINS 1063421 & 1063422Brownfields · 1.6 mi
- SV 536Nitrate · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Livingston Manor'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 Livingston Manor.
Total Sites
195
within ~10 miles of Livingston Manor
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Livingston Manor
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Livingston Manor
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Livingston Manor, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 126 sites within ~10 miles of Livingston Manor. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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Your land is one point inside Livingston Manor
Everything above resolves to Livingston Manor 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 Livingston Manor Average
Livingston Manor Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Livingston Manor
- ●One soil character for all of Livingston Manor
- ●Frost dates read at Livingston Manor's scale: May 5 to Oct 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Livingston Manor's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Livingston Manor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Livingston Manor
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 Livingston Manor’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 Livingston Manor
When does frost risk typically end in Livingston Manor?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Livingston Manor typically lands around May 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 May 26.
When is the first frost in Livingston Manor?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Livingston Manor typically arrives around Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 1, so the watching starts about Sep 15 — about 163 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Livingston Manor?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Livingston Manor sees about 163 frost-free days — roughly May 5 through Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 26 to Oct 1, about 128 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Livingston Manor?
The federal record around Livingston Manor is a meaningful one — 195 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (126), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.7 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Livingston Manor?
From about Sep 15 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Livingston Manor's scale — its 5b band and its 163-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Livingston Manor'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 Livingston Manor’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Livingston Manor's own scale — its own ~163-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,077 acres it covers and 195 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Livingston Manor's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Livingston Manor's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 5 and Oct 15 and the ~163-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 195 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Livingston Manor, the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Livingston Manor's boundary and the 2,077 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~163-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Livingston Manor's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Livingston Manorlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Livingston Manor's 2,077 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sullivan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sullivan 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 Sullivan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Livingston Manor's 2,077 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Livingston Manor you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,077 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 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 Livingston Manor-wide figureread your own land →
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