Shorehaven, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Shorehaven, 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 Shorehaven 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 Shorehaven — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Shorehaven — the short answer
Shorehaven, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 202 days between hard freezes, across 877 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~202
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 877 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 Shorehaven's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Shorehaven's 202-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Shorehaven
Each reading below is measured for Shorehaven itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredShorehaven runs about 202 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
MeasuredShorehaven 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 Shorehaven is in
Shorehaven sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Shorehaven's own centroid rather than borrowed from Dutchess County.
What Grows in Shorehaven
Every plant below cleared Shorehaven's own zone 6b and its 202-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Shorehaven?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Shorehaven
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Shorehaven, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Shorehaven
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Shorehaven. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VINCENT FIRPOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- NORTH WHITE LAKE FIRE DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- FIBERLUX INCBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1041350Brownfields · 1.8 mi
- POUGHQUAGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- VA HOSPITALSuperfund · 2.6 mi
- PAWLING MTN LAND CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- DITRON INCBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- GREEN HAVEN CORRECTIONAL FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- RED WING PROPERTIES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- DUTCHER PAWLING APARTMENTS, LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- VILLAGE OF PAWLINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Shorehaven'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 Shorehaven.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Shorehaven
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Shorehaven
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Shorehaven, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 9 sites within ~10 miles of Shorehaven. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Shorehaven
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 Shorehaven average
Your land is one point inside Shorehaven
Everything above resolves to Shorehaven as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 877 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 Shorehaven Average
Shorehaven Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Shorehaven
- ●One soil character for all of Shorehaven
- ●Frost dates read at Shorehaven's scale: Apr 13 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Shorehaven's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Shorehaven
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Shorehaven, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Shorehaven averages can't show:
We read public map data around Shorehaven — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Shorehaven average
How we know this about Shorehaven
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 Shorehaven’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 Shorehaven
When does frost risk typically end in Shorehaven?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Shorehaven typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Shorehaven?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Shorehaven typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 202 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Shorehaven?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Shorehaven sees about 202 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 18, about 167 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Shorehaven?
The federal record around Shorehaven runs heavier than most — 398 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (236), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles 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 Shorehaven?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Shorehaven's scale — its 6b band and its 202-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Shorehaven'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 Shorehaven’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Shorehaven's own scale — its own ~202-day season between 28°F freezes, the 877 acres it covers and 398 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Shorehaven's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Shorehaven's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Nov 1 and the ~202-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 398 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Shorehaven, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Shorehaven's boundary and the 877 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~202-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Shorehaven's own centroid, the Northeastern HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Shorehavenlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Shorehaven's 877 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dutchess County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dutchess 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 Dutchess County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Shorehaven's 877 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Shorehaven you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 877 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Shorehaven-wide figureread your own land →
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