Perrysburg, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Perrysburg, 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 Perrysburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Perrysburg — the short answer
Perrysburg, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 191 days between hard freezes, across 629 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~191
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 629 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 Perrysburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Perrysburg's 191-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Perrysburg
Each reading below is measured for Perrysburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPerrysburg runs about 191 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
MeasuredPerrysburg 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 Perrysburg is in
Perrysburg sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Perrysburg's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Cattaraugus County is mostly North Central Appalachians. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Perrysburg
Every plant below cleared Perrysburg's own zone 6a and its 191-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Perrysburg?
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 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — 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 Perrysburg
Spotted lanternfly documented 31 miles from Perrysburg, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Perrysburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Perrysburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TOWN OF PERRYSBURGUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- PERRYSBURG LOCATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- WESTERN NY DDSOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CT1146, NYNitrate · 1.1 mi
- CATTARAUGUS CWSPFAS · 1.8 mi
- GOWANDA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTBrownfields · 2.7 mi
- GOWANDA CENTRAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- MARKHAMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- TRI-COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITALBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- TRI COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITALUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- SPARTAN CONSTRUCTION CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1069530Brownfields · 3.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Perrysburg'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 Perrysburg.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Perrysburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Perrysburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Perrysburg, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Perrysburg — CAFO (5 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 Perrysburg
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 Perrysburg
Everything above resolves to Perrysburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 629 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 Perrysburg Average
Perrysburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Perrysburg
- ●One soil character for all of Perrysburg
- ●Frost dates read at Perrysburg's scale: Apr 21 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Perrysburg's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Perrysburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Perrysburg, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Perrysburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Perrysburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Perrysburg average
How we know this about Perrysburg
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 Perrysburg’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 Perrysburg
When does frost risk typically end in Perrysburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Perrysburg typically lands around Apr 21, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Perrysburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Perrysburg typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 191 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Perrysburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Perrysburg sees about 191 frost-free days — roughly Apr 21 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 12 to Oct 15, about 156 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Perrysburg?
The federal record around Perrysburg is a meaningful one — 218 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (78), 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 Perrysburg?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Perrysburg's scale — its 6a band and its 191-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Perrysburg'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 Perrysburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Perrysburg's own scale — its own ~191-day season between 28°F freezes, the 629 acres it covers and 218 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Perrysburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Perrysburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 21 and Oct 29 and the ~191-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 218 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Perrysburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Perrysburg's boundary and the 629 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~191-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Perrysburg sits in the Erie Drift Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Perrysburglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Perrysburg's 629 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cattaraugus County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cattaraugus 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 Cattaraugus County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Perrysburg's 629 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Perrysburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 629 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 Perrysburg-wide figureread your own land →
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