Sodus Point, 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.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Sodus Point, 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 Sodus Point lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Sodus Point — the short answer
Sodus Point, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 218 days between hard freezes, across 938 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~218
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 938 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 Sodus Point's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sodus Point's 218-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sodus Point
Each reading below is measured for Sodus Point itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSodus Point runs about 218 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
MeasuredSodus Point 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 Sodus Point is in
Sodus Point sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sodus Point's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wayne County.
What Grows in Sodus Point
Every plant below cleared Sodus Point's own zone 6b and its 218-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sodus Point?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 14 — 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 Sodus Point
Survey cells within 31 miles of Sodus Point checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 33 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sodus Point
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sodus Point. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SHIRTZ GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- VILLAGE OF SODUS POINTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- GENESEE BREWING CO MALT HOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- KATLYNN MARINE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- ARNEY'S MARINA INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WN 628Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- PAINT PLUSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SODUS POINT PIT STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- WN 814Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- WN 902Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- ROBERT AND TERRI BRISKYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- DALE GRAHAM PLUMBINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sodus Point'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 Sodus Point.
Total Sites
136
within ~10 miles of Sodus Point
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sodus Point
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sodus Point
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sodus Point, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Sodus Point — CAFO (3 sites) and Superfund (3 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
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Your land is one point inside Sodus Point
Everything above resolves to Sodus Point as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 938 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 Sodus Point Average
Sodus Point Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Sodus Point
- ●One soil character for all of Sodus Point
- ●Frost dates read at Sodus Point's scale: Apr 10 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sodus Point's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sodus Point
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Three things about your lot that Sodus Point averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sodus Point — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Sodus Point
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 Sodus Point’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 Sodus Point
When does frost risk typically end in Sodus Point?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sodus Point typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Sodus Point?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sodus Point typically arrives around Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 31, so the watching starts about Oct 15 — about 218 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sodus Point?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sodus Point sees about 218 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 31, about 183 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sodus Point?
The federal record around Sodus Point is a meaningful one — 136 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (83), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 Sodus Point?
From about Oct 15 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sodus Point's scale — its 6b band and its 218-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sodus Point'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 Sodus Point’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sodus Point's own scale — its own ~218-day season between 28°F freezes, the 938 acres it covers and 136 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sodus Point's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sodus Point's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Nov 14 and the ~218-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 136 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sodus Point, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sodus Point's boundary and the 938 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~218-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Sodus Point's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Sodus Point 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 Sodus Point's 938 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 Sodus Point's 938 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sodus Point you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 938 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Sodus Point-wide figureread your own land →