Savannah, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Savannah, 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 Savannah 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 Savannah — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Savannah — the short answer
Savannah, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 755 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 755 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 6a is Savannah's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Savannah's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Savannah
Each reading below is measured for Savannah itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSavannah runs about 213 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
MeasuredSavannah sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Savannah is in
Savannah sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Savannah's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wayne County.
What Grows in Savannah
Every plant below cleared Savannah's own zone 6a and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Savannah?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Savannah
Spotted lanternfly documented 21 miles from Savannah, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Savannah
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Savannah. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- M J K ENTERPRISESUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- ROSES QUICK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- DAVE'SUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- CLYDE-SAVANNAH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- TOWN OF SAVANNAHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- WAYNE COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- NYSDOT BIN 1096270Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- ZAPPALA FARMS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- GULF NORTHERN TRANSPORT INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- WATSON'S STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- WESCOTT FURNITURE STRIPPINGBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- ADM GRAIN COMPANYBrownfields · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Savannah'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 Savannah.
Total Sites
165
within ~10 miles of Savannah
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Savannah
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Savannah
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Savannah, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 12 sites within ~10 miles of Savannah. 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.
Check your specific parcel in Savannah
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 Savannah average
Your land is one point inside Savannah
Everything above resolves to Savannah as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 755 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 Savannah Average
Savannah Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Savannah
- ●One soil character for all of Savannah
- ●Frost dates read at Savannah's scale: Apr 8 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Savannah's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Savannah
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Savannah, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Savannah averages can't show:
We read public map data around Savannah — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Savannah average
How we know this about Savannah
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 Savannah’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 Savannah
When does frost risk typically end in Savannah?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Savannah typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Savannah?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Savannah typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Savannah?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Savannah sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 24, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Savannah?
The federal record around Savannah is a meaningful one — 165 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (75), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Savannah?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Savannah's scale — its 6a band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Savannah'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 Savannah’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Savannah's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 755 acres it covers and 165 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Savannah's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Savannah's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Nov 7 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 165 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Savannah, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Savannah's boundary and the 755 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Savannah's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Savannahlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Savannah's 755 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wayne County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wayne 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 Wayne County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Savannah's 755 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Savannah you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 755 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Savannah-wide figureread your own land →