Prattsville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Prattsville, 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 Prattsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Prattsville — the short answer
Prattsville, New York: USDA zone 5a, about 156 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~156
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Prattsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Prattsville's 156-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Prattsville
Each reading below is measured for Prattsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPrattsville runs about 156 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
MeasuredPrattsville 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 Prattsville is in
Prattsville sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Prattsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Greene County.
What Grows in Prattsville
Every plant below cleared Prattsville's own zone 5a and its 156-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Prattsville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 10 — 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 Prattsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 8 miles from Prattsville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Prattsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Prattsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BOWERS & SONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- HUFF ICE CREAMUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- NYCDEP SHANDAKEN TUNNEL INTAKE CHAMBER STICBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- FRANK PINDAR & SON INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- BRAUNSDORF COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- O'HARA'S TRADING POSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- G 128Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- SO 529Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- AGWAY ENERGY PRODUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- WILLIAM BRIGGSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- GRAND GORGE STPBrownfields · 2.4 mi
- SO 527Nitrate · 2.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Prattsville'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 Prattsville.
Total Sites
132
within ~10 miles of Prattsville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Prattsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Prattsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Prattsville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 64 sites within ~10 miles of Prattsville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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).
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Your land is one point inside Prattsville
Everything above resolves to Prattsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Prattsville Average
Prattsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Prattsville
- ●One soil character for all of Prattsville
- ●Frost dates read at Prattsville's scale: May 7 to Oct 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Prattsville's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Prattsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Prattsville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Prattsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Prattsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Prattsville average
How we know this about Prattsville
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 Prattsville’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 Prattsville
When does frost risk typically end in Prattsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Prattsville typically lands around May 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Prattsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Prattsville typically arrives around Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 26, so the watching starts about Sep 10 — about 156 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Prattsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Prattsville sees about 156 frost-free days — roughly May 7 through Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 28 to Sep 26, about 121 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Prattsville?
The federal record around Prattsville shows 132 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (64), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Prattsville?
From about Sep 10 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Prattsville's scale — its 5a band and its 156-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Prattsville'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 Prattsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Prattsville's own scale — its own ~156-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,584 acres it covers and 132 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Prattsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Prattsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 7 and Oct 10 and the ~156-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 132 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Prattsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Prattsville's boundary and the 2,584 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~156-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Prattsville's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Prattsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Prattsville's 2,584 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Greene County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Greene 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 Greene County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Prattsville's 2,584 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Prattsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,584 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Prattsville-wide figureread your own land →