Redford, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Redford, 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 Redford 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 Redford — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Redford — the short answer
Redford, New York: USDA zone 4b, about 165 days between hard freezes, across 861 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~165
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 861 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 4b is Redford's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Redford's 165-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Redford
Each reading below is measured for Redford itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRedford runs about 165 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
MeasuredRedford sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b.
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 Redford is in
Redford sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Redford's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Clinton County is mostly Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Redford
Every plant below cleared Redford's own zone 4b and its 165-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Redford?
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 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 13 — 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 Redford
Survey cells within 31 miles of Redford checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 61 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Redford
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Redford. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SARANAC UNITED METHODIST CHURCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- MAPLEFIELDS AT REDFORDBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- MAPLEFIELDS AT REDFORDUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- CLAYBURG GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CL 25Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- CL 700Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1000830Brownfields · 3.4 mi
- HIGH FALLS - SARANAC NYBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- CL 16Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- NAPPER LOGGING, LLC.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- TOWN OF SARANAC HIGHWAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- TEDFORD'S INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Redford'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 Redford.
Total Sites
66
within ~10 miles of Redford
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Redford
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Redford
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Redford, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 28 sites within ~10 miles of Redford. 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 Redford
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 Redford
Everything above resolves to Redford as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 861 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 Redford Average
Redford Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Redford
- ●One soil character for all of Redford
- ●Frost dates read at Redford's scale: May 1 to Oct 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Redford's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Redford
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Redford, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Redford averages can't show:
We read public map data around Redford — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Redford average
How we know this about Redford
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 Redford’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 Redford
When does frost risk typically end in Redford?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Redford typically lands around May 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Redford?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Redford typically arrives around Oct 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 29, so the watching starts about Sep 13 — about 165 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Redford?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Redford sees about 165 frost-free days — roughly May 1 through Oct 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 22 to Sep 29, about 130 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Redford?
The federal record around Redford shows 66 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (30), 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 Redford?
From about Sep 13 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Redford's scale — its 4b band and its 165-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Redford'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 Redford’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Redford's own scale — its own ~165-day season between 28°F freezes, the 861 acres it covers and 66 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Redford's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Redford's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 1 and Oct 13 and the ~165-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 66 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Redford, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Redford's boundary and the 861 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~165-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Redford sits in the Northeastern Highlands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Redford 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 Redford's 861 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clinton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clinton 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 Clinton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Redford's 861 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Redford you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 861 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 Redford-wide figureread your own land →