Millport, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Millport, 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 Millport lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Millport — the short answer
Millport, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 177 days between hard freezes, across 223 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~177
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 223 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 Millport's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Millport's 177-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Millport
Each reading below is measured for Millport itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMillport 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
MeasuredMillport 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 Millport is in
Millport sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Millport's own centroid rather than borrowed from Chemung County.
What Grows in Millport
Every plant below cleared Millport's own zone 6a and its 177-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Millport?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Millport
Spotted lanternfly documented 14 miles from Millport, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Millport
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Millport. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CM2294Nitrate · 300 ft
- CHEMUNG FIRE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SMS PARTNERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- NYS OFFICE OF PARKS, REC & HIS PRESUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- TOWN OF VETERANUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- WONDERVIEW FARMCAFO · 2.5 mi
- RICHARD LAPIERREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- STERLINGS AUTO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- CM 949Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- DANDY MINI MART #71Underground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- CM2278Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- TOWN OF CATLINUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Millport'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 Millport.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Millport
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Millport
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Millport, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 6 sites within ~10 miles of Millport. 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 Millport
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 Millport average
Your land is one point inside Millport
Everything above resolves to Millport as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 223 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 Millport Average
Millport Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Millport
- ●One soil character for all of Millport
- ●Frost dates read at Millport's scale: Apr 28 to Oct 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Millport's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Millport
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We read public map data around Millport — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Millport average
How we know this about Millport
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 Millport’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 Millport
When does frost risk typically end in Millport?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Millport typically lands around Apr 28, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Millport?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Millport typically arrives around Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 8, so the watching starts about Sep 22 — about 177 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Millport?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Millport sees about 177 frost-free days — roughly Apr 28 through Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 19 to Oct 8, about 142 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Millport?
The federal record around Millport is a meaningful one — 363 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (148), the nearest Nitrate 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 Millport?
From about Sep 22 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 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 Oct 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Millport's scale — its 6a band and its 177-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Millport'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 Millport’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Millport's own scale — its own ~177-day season between 28°F freezes, the 223 acres it covers and 363 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Millport's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Millport's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 28 and Oct 22 and the ~177-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 363 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Millport, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Millport's boundary and the 223 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~177-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Millport's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Millportlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Millport's 223 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Chemung County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Chemung 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 Chemung County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Millport's 223 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Millport you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 223 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Millport-wide figureread your own land →
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