Point Lookout, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Point Lookout, 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 Point Lookout lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Point Lookout — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Point Lookout — the short answer
Point Lookout, New York: USDA zone 7b, about 254 days between hard freezes, across 173 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~254
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 173 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 7b is Point Lookout's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Point Lookout's 254-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Point Lookout
Each reading below is measured for Point Lookout itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPoint Lookout runs about 254 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredPoint Lookout sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Point Lookout is in
Point Lookout sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Point Lookout's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Nassau County is mostly Northeastern Coastal Zone. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Point Lookout
Every plant below cleared Point Lookout's own zone 7b and its 254-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Point Lookout?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Point Lookout
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Point Lookout, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Point Lookout
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Point Lookout. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ALCOR PETROLEUM CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- HEMPSTEAD TOWN OF DEPT CONSERVATION & WATERWAYS LABBrownfields · 1600 ft
- NYSDOT - LOOP PKWY AT MEADOWBROOK STATE PKWY BIN 1056769Brownfields · 2200 ft
- NYSDOT BIN 1056769Brownfields · 2400 ft
- N 46. 1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- LIDO-POINT LOOKOUT WATER DISTRICTBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- N 5227. 2Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- LIDO POINT LOOKOUT WD-WELL-WELL 2Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- N 6849. 1Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- N 6852. 1Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- N 6851. 1Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- N 6850. 2Nitrate · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Point Lookout'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 Point Lookout.
Total Sites
2,355
within ~10 miles of Point Lookout
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
12 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Point Lookout
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Point Lookout
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Point Lookout, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 1,368 sites within ~10 miles of Point Lookout. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Point Lookout
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 Point Lookout average
Your land is one point inside Point Lookout
Everything above resolves to Point Lookout as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 173 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 Point Lookout Average
Point Lookout Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Point Lookout
- ●One soil character for all of Point Lookout
- ●Frost dates read at Point Lookout's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Point Lookout's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Point Lookout
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Point Lookout, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Point Lookout averages can't show:
We read public map data around Point Lookout — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Point Lookout average
How we know this about Point Lookout
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 Point Lookout’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 Point Lookout
When does frost risk typically end in Point Lookout?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Point Lookout typically lands around Mar 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 Apr 11.
When is the first frost in Point Lookout?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Point Lookout typically arrives around Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 16, so the watching starts about Oct 31 — about 254 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Point Lookout?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Point Lookout sees about 254 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Nov 16, about 219 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Point Lookout?
The federal record around Point Lookout is a meaningful one — 2,355 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (1,368), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Point Lookout?
From about Oct 31 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 Nov 30 (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 Nov 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Point Lookout's scale — its 7b band and its 254-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Point Lookout'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 Point Lookout’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Point Lookout's own scale — its own ~254-day season between 28°F freezes, the 173 acres it covers and 2,355 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Point Lookout's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Point Lookout's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 30 and the ~254-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,355 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Point Lookout, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Point Lookout's boundary and the 173 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~254-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Point Lookout sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Point Lookoutlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Point Lookout's 173 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Nassau County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Nassau 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 Nassau County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Point Lookout's 173 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Point Lookout you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 173 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Point Lookout-wide figureread your own land →
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