Lodi, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lodi, 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 Lodi 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 Lodi — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lodi — the short answer
Lodi, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 353 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 353 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 Lodi's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lodi's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lodi
Each reading below is measured for Lodi itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLodi runs about 201 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
MeasuredLodi 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 Lodi is in
Lodi sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lodi's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Seneca County is mostly Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Lodi
Every plant below cleared Lodi's own zone 6a and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lodi?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Lodi
Spotted lanternfly documented 14 miles from Lodi, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lodi
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lodi. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WAMCO LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- CLOSE OIL COMPANY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- WAGNER VINEYARDSUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- TOWN OF LODIUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- CARL'S FRIENDLY SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- GRIFFITH ENERGY - LODIToxics Release Inventory · 2400 ft
- GRIFFITH ENERGY - LODIBrownfields · 2400 ft
- MAYBURY-ROSENKRANS REAL ESTATE LLCCAFO · 1.2 mi
- SE1380Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- PEPSI COLA ELMIRA BOTTLING CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- JUST SERENDIPITYCAFO · 1.4 mi
- BRAD HUFFINES FARMCAFO · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lodi'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 Lodi.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lodi
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lodi
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lodi, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 7 sites within ~10 miles of Lodi. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Lodi
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 Lodi average
Your land is one point inside Lodi
Everything above resolves to Lodi as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 353 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 Lodi Average
Lodi Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Lodi
- ●One soil character for all of Lodi
- ●Frost dates read at Lodi's scale: Apr 16 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lodi's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lodi
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lodi, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lodi averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lodi — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lodi average
How we know this about Lodi
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 Lodi’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 Lodi
When does frost risk typically end in Lodi?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lodi typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Lodi?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lodi typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lodi?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lodi sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 20, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lodi?
The federal record around Lodi is a meaningful one — 137 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (68), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lodi?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lodi's scale — its 6a band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lodi'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 Lodi’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lodi's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 353 acres it covers and 137 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lodi's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lodi's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Nov 3 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 137 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lodi, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lodi's boundary and the 353 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lodi sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lodilydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lodi's 353 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Seneca County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Seneca 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 Seneca County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lodi's 353 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lodi you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 353 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 Lodi-wide figureread your own land →
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