Munnsville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Munnsville, 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 Munnsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Munnsville — the short answer
Munnsville, New York: USDA zone 5b, about 186 days between hard freezes, across 561 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~186
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 561 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 Munnsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Munnsville's 186-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Munnsville
Each reading below is measured for Munnsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMunnsville runs about 186 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
MeasuredMunnsville 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 Munnsville is in
Munnsville sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Munnsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Madison County.
What Grows in Munnsville
Every plant below cleared Munnsville's own zone 5b and its 186-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Munnsville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — 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 Munnsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 27 miles from Munnsville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Munnsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Munnsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STOCKBRIDGE VALLEY FOODS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- STOCKBRIDGE WATER DISTRICTPFAS · 1300 ft
- STOCKBRIDGE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOLBrownfields · 1400 ft
- TOWN OF STOCKBRIDGE HIGHWAY GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- STOCKBRIDGE VALLEY C.S. BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- FERRIS INDUSTRIES, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- MUNNSVILLE LIMESTONE CORP.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- MY-BAR-K MEADOWSCAFO · 1.5 mi
- DONALD SMITH AND SONSCAFO · 2.5 mi
- ROSS SMITH FARMSCAFO · 2.5 mi
- CEDAR KNOB FARMS LLCCAFO · 2.6 mi
- SWOCO LANDFILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Munnsville'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 Munnsville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Munnsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Munnsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Munnsville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Munnsville — CAFO (26 sites) and Superfund (4 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Munnsville
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 Munnsville
Everything above resolves to Munnsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 561 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 Munnsville Average
Munnsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Munnsville
- ●One soil character for all of Munnsville
- ●Frost dates read at Munnsville's scale: Apr 22 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Munnsville's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Munnsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Munnsville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Munnsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Munnsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Munnsville average
How we know this about Munnsville
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 Munnsville’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 Munnsville
When does frost risk typically end in Munnsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Munnsville typically lands around Apr 22, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Munnsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Munnsville typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 186 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Munnsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Munnsville sees about 186 frost-free days — roughly Apr 22 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 13 to Oct 11, about 151 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Munnsville?
The federal record around Munnsville is a meaningful one — 271 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (145), 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 Munnsville?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Munnsville's scale — its 5b band and its 186-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Munnsville'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 Munnsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Munnsville's own scale — its own ~186-day season between 28°F freezes, the 561 acres it covers and 271 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Munnsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Munnsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 22 and Oct 25 and the ~186-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 271 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Munnsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Munnsville's boundary and the 561 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~186-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Munnsville's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Munnsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Munnsville's 561 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Madison County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Madison 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 Madison County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Munnsville's 561 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Munnsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 561 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 Munnsville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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