Pierrepont Manor, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Growers here do well with cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Pierrepont Manor, 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 Pierrepont Manor lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pierrepont Manor — the short answer
Pierrepont Manor, New York: USDA zone 5a, about 189 days between hard freezes, across 495 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- 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 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~189
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 495 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 5a is Pierrepont Manor's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pierrepont Manor's 189-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pierrepont Manor
Each reading below is measured for Pierrepont Manor itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPierrepont Manor runs about 189 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
MeasuredPierrepont Manor sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
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 Pierrepont Manor is in
Pierrepont Manor sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pierrepont Manor's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jefferson County.
What Grows in Pierrepont Manor
Every plant below cleared Pierrepont Manor's own zone 5a and its 189-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pierrepont Manor?
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 28 — 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 Pierrepont Manor
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pierrepont Manor checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 47 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pierrepont Manor
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pierrepont Manor. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PIERREPONT MANOR GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- NYSDOT BIN 1094690Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1031990Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1032000Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1032020Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1094870Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- NORTH COUNTRY DAIRY, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- SOUTH JEFFERSON CENTRAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- GROFFS BODY SHOPBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1008610Brownfields · 1.8 mi
- NYSDOT BRIDGE BIN 1008620Brownfields · 1.8 mi
- J1118Nitrate · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pierrepont Manor'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 Pierrepont Manor.
Total Sites
148
within ~10 miles of Pierrepont Manor
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pierrepont Manor
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pierrepont Manor
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pierrepont Manor, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 22 sites within ~10 miles of Pierrepont Manor. 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.
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Your land is one point inside Pierrepont Manor
Everything above resolves to Pierrepont Manor as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 495 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 Pierrepont Manor Average
Pierrepont Manor Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Pierrepont Manor
- ●One soil character for all of Pierrepont Manor
- ●Frost dates read at Pierrepont Manor's scale: Apr 22 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pierrepont Manor's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Pierrepont Manor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Pierrepont Manor
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 Pierrepont Manor’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 Pierrepont Manor
When does frost risk typically end in Pierrepont Manor?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pierrepont Manor 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 Pierrepont Manor?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pierrepont Manor typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 189 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pierrepont Manor?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pierrepont Manor sees about 189 frost-free days — roughly Apr 22 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 13 to Oct 14, about 154 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pierrepont Manor?
The federal record around Pierrepont Manor shows 148 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (61), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Pierrepont Manor?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pierrepont Manor's scale — its 5a band and its 189-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pierrepont Manor'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 Pierrepont Manor’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pierrepont Manor's own scale — its own ~189-day season between 28°F freezes, the 495 acres it covers and 148 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pierrepont Manor's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pierrepont Manor's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 22 and Oct 28 and the ~189-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 148 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pierrepont Manor, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pierrepont Manor's boundary and the 495 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~189-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pierrepont Manor's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pierrepont Manor checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pierrepont Manor's 495 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jefferson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jefferson 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 Jefferson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pierrepont Manor's 495 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pierrepont Manor you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 495 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 Pierrepont Manor-wide figureread your own land →