Shenorock, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — 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, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Shenorock, 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 Shenorock lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Shenorock — the short answer
Shenorock, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 448 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 448 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 6b is Shenorock's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Shenorock's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Shenorock
Each reading below is measured for Shenorock itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredShenorock 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
MeasuredShenorock sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Shenorock is in
Shenorock sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Shenorock's own centroid rather than borrowed from Westchester County.
What Grows in Shenorock
Every plant below cleared Shenorock's own zone 6b and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Shenorock?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Shenorock
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Shenorock, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Shenorock
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Shenorock. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WE 41Nitrate · 450 ft
- WE1460Nitrate · 450 ft
- WE3867Nitrate · 550 ft
- NYSDEC - GRANITE POINTE SUBDIVISION OFFSITE NO C360107ABrownfields · 1.1 mi
- MARY KATES RESTAURANTBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- ANGLEBROOK GOLF CLUBBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- HSBC BANK BRANCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- WE 40Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- BALDWIN TEXACO DBA/RCRD INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- BIG V SUPERMARKETSBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- NYSDEC - BALDWIN PLACE MALLBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- RFRS INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Shenorock'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 Shenorock.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Shenorock
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Shenorock
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Shenorock, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 12 sites within ~10 miles of Shenorock. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Shenorock
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 Shenorock average
Your land is one point inside Shenorock
Everything above resolves to Shenorock as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 448 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 Shenorock Average
Shenorock Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Shenorock
- ●One soil character for all of Shenorock
- ●Frost dates read at Shenorock's scale: Apr 6 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Shenorock's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Shenorock
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Shenorock, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Shenorock averages can't show:
We read public map data around Shenorock — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Shenorock average
How we know this about Shenorock
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 Shenorock’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 Shenorock
When does frost risk typically end in Shenorock?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Shenorock typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Shenorock?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Shenorock typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Shenorock?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Shenorock sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 22, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Shenorock?
The federal record around Shenorock runs heavier than most — 596 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (264), the nearest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Shenorock?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Shenorock's scale — its 6b band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Shenorock'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 Shenorock’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Shenorock's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 448 acres it covers and 596 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Shenorock's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Shenorock's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Nov 5 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 596 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Shenorock, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Shenorock's boundary and the 448 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Shenorock's own centroid, the Northeastern Coastal ZoneUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Shenorocklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Shenorock's 448 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Westchester County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Westchester 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 Westchester County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Shenorock's 448 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Shenorock you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 448 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Shenorock-wide figureread your own land →