Pavilion, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pavilion, 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 Pavilion lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pavilion — the short answer
Pavilion, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 184 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~184
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Pavilion's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pavilion's 184-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pavilion
Each reading below is measured for Pavilion itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPavilion runs about 184 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
MeasuredPavilion 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 Pavilion is in
Pavilion sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pavilion's own centroid rather than borrowed from Genesee County.
What Grows in Pavilion
Every plant below cleared Pavilion's own zone 6a and its 184-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pavilion?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Pavilion
Spotted lanternfly documented 23 miles from Pavilion, first recorded 2018. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pavilion
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pavilion. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HANSON AGGREGATES NEW YORK LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- GS 17Nitrate · 1500 ft
- HANSON AGGREGATED BRD INCBrownfields · 1700 ft
- J D BUCKLEY & SON INCToxics Release Inventory · 1800 ft
- KEMP-RUDGERS SUPER SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- PAVILION FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- TOWN OF PAVILIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- GS 11Nitrate · 0.5 mi
- PAVILION WATER STORAGE TANKBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- PAVILION CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- PAVILION CENTRAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- COTTONWOOD FARMSCAFO · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pavilion'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 Pavilion.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pavilion
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pavilion
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pavilion, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pavilion — CAFO (42 sites) and PFAS (3 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.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Pavilion
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 Pavilion average
Your land is one point inside Pavilion
Everything above resolves to Pavilion as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Pavilion Average
Pavilion Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Pavilion
- ●One soil character for all of Pavilion
- ●Frost dates read at Pavilion's scale: Apr 23 to Oct 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pavilion's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pavilion
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pavilion, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pavilion averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pavilion — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pavilion average
How we know this about Pavilion
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 Pavilion’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 Pavilion
When does frost risk typically end in Pavilion?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pavilion typically lands around Apr 23, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Pavilion?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pavilion typically arrives around Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 10, so the watching starts about Sep 24 — about 184 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pavilion?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pavilion sees about 184 frost-free days — roughly Apr 23 through Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 14 to Oct 10, about 149 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pavilion?
The federal record around Pavilion is a meaningful one — 248 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (101), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Pavilion?
From about Sep 24 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pavilion's scale — its 6a band and its 184-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pavilion'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 Pavilion’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pavilion's own scale — its own ~184-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,422 acres it covers and 248 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pavilion's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pavilion's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 23 and Oct 24 and the ~184-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 248 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pavilion, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pavilion's boundary and the 2,422 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~184-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pavilion's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Pavilionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pavilion's 2,422 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Genesee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Genesee 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 Genesee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pavilion's 2,422 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pavilion you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,422 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Pavilion-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across New YorkPavilion sits outside our named growing regions, so New York as a whole is its closest context here.
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