Mount Vision, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Mount Vision, 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 Mount Vision lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mount Vision — the short answer
Mount Vision, New York: USDA zone 5b, about 165 days between hard freezes, across 969 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~165
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 969 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 Mount Vision's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mount Vision's 165-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mount Vision
Each reading below is measured for Mount Vision itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMount Vision runs about 165 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
MeasuredMount Vision 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 Mount Vision is in
Mount Vision sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mount Vision's own centroid rather than borrowed from Otsego County.
What Grows in Mount Vision
Every plant below cleared Mount Vision's own zone 5b and its 165-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mount Vision?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 18 — 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 Mount Vision
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Mount Vision, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Mount Vision
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mount Vision. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JERRY WOODCAFO · 1.2 mi
- LILA TILLEYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- LAURENS CENTRAL SCHOOL BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- MIRABITO 133Underground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- GILBERT LAKE STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- LAURENS HIGHWAY DEPT.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- BOUDREAU'SUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- LAURENS CENTRAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- LAURENS CENTRAL SCHOOLBrownfields · 4.0 mi
- MILFORD SCHOOL BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- HARTWICK QUICKWAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- MILFORD CENTRAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mount Vision'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 Mount Vision.
Total Sites
235
within ~10 miles of Mount Vision
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mount Vision
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mount Vision
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mount Vision, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Mount Vision — CAFO (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (156 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Mount Vision
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Mount Vision
Everything above resolves to Mount Vision as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 969 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 Mount Vision Average
Mount Vision Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Mount Vision
- ●One soil character for all of Mount Vision
- ●Frost dates read at Mount Vision's scale: May 6 to Oct 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mount Vision's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mount Vision
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mount Vision, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mount Vision averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mount Vision — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mount Vision average
How we know this about Mount Vision
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 Mount Vision’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 Mount Vision
When does frost risk typically end in Mount Vision?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mount Vision typically lands around May 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Mount Vision?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mount Vision typically arrives around Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 4, so the watching starts about Sep 18 — about 165 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mount Vision?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mount Vision sees about 165 frost-free days — roughly May 6 through Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 27 to Oct 4, about 130 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mount Vision?
The federal record around Mount Vision is a meaningful one — 235 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (156), the nearest CAFO record about 1.2 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 Mount Vision?
From about Sep 18 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mount Vision's scale — its 5b band and its 165-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mount Vision'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 Mount Vision’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Mount Vision's own scale — its own ~165-day season between 28°F freezes, the 969 acres it covers and 235 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mount Vision's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mount Vision's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 6 and Oct 18 and the ~165-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 235 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mount Vision, the closest CAFO record about 1.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mount Vision's boundary and the 969 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~165-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mount Vision's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Mount Visionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mount Vision's 969 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Otsego County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Otsego 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 Otsego County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mount Vision's 969 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mount Vision you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 969 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest CAFO record about 1.2 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 Mount Vision-wide figureread your own land →
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