Lyons Falls, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Lyons Falls, 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 Lyons Falls 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 Lyons Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lyons Falls — the short answer
Lyons Falls, New York: USDA zone 5a, about 177 days between hard freezes, across 620 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~177
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 620 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 5a is Lyons Falls's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lyons Falls's 177-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lyons Falls
Each reading below is measured for Lyons Falls itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLyons Falls runs about 177 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
MeasuredLyons Falls sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
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 Lyons Falls is in
Lyons Falls sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lyons Falls's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Lewis County is mostly Northeastern Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Lyons Falls
Every plant below cleared Lyons Falls's own zone 5a and its 177-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lyons Falls?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Lyons Falls
Survey cells within 31 miles of Lyons Falls checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 54 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lyons Falls
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lyons Falls. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AGWAY ENERGY PRODUCTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- LYONS FALLS PULP & PAPER INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- LYONS FALLS PULP & PAPER INCToxics Release Inventory · 850 ft
- LAW BROTHERS CONTRACTING CORP.Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- TEAL'S LEASING INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #11550Brownfields · 1600 ft
- MARINO'S PIZZERIAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- STEWART'S SHOPS CORP. #372Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- OTIS TECHNOLOGY INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- VILLAGE CAFEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- CONWAY DAIRY FARMS LLCCAFO · 1.8 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1094610Brownfields · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lyons Falls'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 Lyons Falls.
Total Sites
116
within ~10 miles of Lyons Falls
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lyons Falls
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lyons Falls
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lyons Falls, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 8 sites within ~10 miles of Lyons Falls. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Lyons Falls
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Your land is one point inside Lyons Falls
Everything above resolves to Lyons Falls as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 620 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 Lyons Falls Average
Lyons Falls Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Lyons Falls
- ●One soil character for all of Lyons Falls
- ●Frost dates read at Lyons Falls's scale: Apr 25 to Oct 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lyons Falls's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lyons Falls
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lyons Falls, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lyons Falls averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lyons Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lyons Falls average
How we know this about Lyons Falls
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 Lyons Falls’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 Lyons Falls
When does frost risk typically end in Lyons Falls?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lyons Falls typically lands around Apr 25, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Lyons Falls?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lyons Falls typically arrives around Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 5, so the watching starts about Sep 19 — about 177 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lyons Falls?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lyons Falls sees about 177 frost-free days — roughly Apr 25 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 16 to Oct 5, about 142 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lyons Falls?
The federal record around Lyons Falls is a meaningful one — 116 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (56), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Lyons Falls?
From about Sep 19 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lyons Falls's scale — its 5a band and its 177-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lyons Falls'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 Lyons Falls’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lyons Falls's own scale — its own ~177-day season between 28°F freezes, the 620 acres it covers and 116 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lyons Falls's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lyons Falls's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 25 and Oct 19 and the ~177-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 116 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lyons Falls, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lyons Falls's boundary and the 620 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~177-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lyons Falls sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Lyons Falls checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lyons Falls's 620 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lewis County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lewis 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 Lewis County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lyons Falls's 620 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lyons Falls you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 620 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Lyons Falls-wide figureread your own land →