Pottersville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Pottersville, 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 Pottersville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pottersville — the short answer
Pottersville, New York: USDA zone 5a, about 163 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~163
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Pottersville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pottersville's 163-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pottersville
Each reading below is measured for Pottersville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPottersville runs about 163 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
MeasuredPottersville 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 Pottersville is in
Pottersville sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Pottersville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Warren County.
What Grows in Pottersville
Every plant below cleared Pottersville's own zone 5a and its 163-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pottersville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 12 — 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 Pottersville
Spotted lanternfly documented 21 miles from Pottersville, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pottersville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pottersville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STONE BRIDGE GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- RIVERSIDE GAS & OIL CO. INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- WR 79Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- RIVERSIDE DEPOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- WORD OF LIFE BIBLE INSTITUTEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- WORD OF LIFE OFFICE BUILDINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1033612Brownfields · 1.0 mi
- POTTERSVILLE VALERO #0208-1438/#23047Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- TOWN OF CHESTER HIGHWAY DEPT.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIPBrownfields · 4.2 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1095870Brownfields · 4.8 mi
- NATIONAL GRID - NORTH CREEK SUBSTATIONBrownfields · 5.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pottersville'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 Pottersville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pottersville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pottersville
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Pottersville
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 Pottersville
Everything above resolves to Pottersville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Pottersville Average
Pottersville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Pottersville
- ●One soil character for all of Pottersville
- ●Frost dates read at Pottersville's scale: May 2 to Oct 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pottersville's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pottersville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pottersville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pottersville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pottersville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pottersville average
How we know this about Pottersville
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 Pottersville’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 Pottersville
When does frost risk typically end in Pottersville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pottersville typically lands around May 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Pottersville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pottersville typically arrives around Oct 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 28, so the watching starts about Sep 12 — about 163 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pottersville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pottersville sees about 163 frost-free days — roughly May 2 through Oct 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 23 to Sep 28, about 128 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pottersville?
The federal record around Pottersville shows 112 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (63), 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 Pottersville?
From about Sep 12 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pottersville's scale — its 5a band and its 163-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pottersville'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 Pottersville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pottersville's own scale — its own ~163-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,459 acres it covers and 112 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pottersville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pottersville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 2 and Oct 12 and the ~163-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 112 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pottersville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pottersville's boundary and the 1,459 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~163-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pottersville's own centroid, the Northeastern HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Pottersvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pottersville's 1,459 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Warren County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Warren 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 Warren County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pottersville's 1,459 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pottersville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,459 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 Pottersville-wide figureread your own land →
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