St. Regis Falls, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in St. Regis Falls, 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 St. Regis Falls lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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St. Regis Falls — the short answer
St. Regis Falls, New York: USDA zone 4b, about 155 days between hard freezes, across 827 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~155
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 827 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 St. Regis Falls's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against St. Regis Falls's 155-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in St. Regis Falls
Each reading below is measured for St. Regis Falls itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSt. Regis Falls runs about 155 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
MeasuredSt. Regis Falls 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 St. Regis Falls is in
St. Regis Falls sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at St. Regis Falls's own centroid rather than borrowed from Franklin County.
What Grows in St. Regis Falls
Every plant below cleared St. Regis Falls's own zone 4b and its 155-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in St. Regis Falls?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 8 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around St. Regis Falls
Survey cells within 31 miles of St. Regis Falls checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 63 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near St. Regis Falls
Closest first, within ~10 miles of St. Regis Falls. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RIVER FRONT APARTMENTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- TOWN OF WAVERLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- ST REGIS FALLS CENTRAL SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- MOUNTAIN MART #103Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- F1037Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- DC MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- TOWN OF DICKINSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- TOWN OF SANTA CLARA GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- ROSS GENERAL STORE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1029580Brownfields · 4.4 mi
- F 543Nitrate · 4.6 mi
- DJ'S - RENSHERUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from St. Regis Falls'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 St. Regis Falls.
Total Sites
48
within ~10 miles of St. Regis Falls
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
9 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of St. Regis Falls
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of St. Regis Falls
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around St. Regis Falls, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 9 sites within ~10 miles of St. Regis Falls. 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.
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Your land is one point inside St. Regis Falls
Everything above resolves to St. Regis Falls as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 827 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 St. Regis Falls Average
St. Regis Falls Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across St. Regis Falls
- ●One soil character for all of St. Regis Falls
- ●Frost dates read at St. Regis Falls's scale: May 6 to Oct 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not St. Regis Falls's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in St. Regis Falls
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in St. Regis Falls, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that St. Regis Falls averages can't show:
We read public map data around St. Regis Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the St. Regis Falls average
How we know this about St. Regis Falls
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 St. Regis Falls’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 St. Regis Falls
When does frost risk typically end in St. Regis Falls?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in St. Regis Falls typically lands around May 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 May 27.
When is the first frost in St. Regis Falls?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in St. Regis Falls typically arrives around Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 24, so the watching starts about Sep 8 — about 155 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in St. Regis Falls?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, St. Regis Falls sees about 155 frost-free days — roughly May 6 through Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 27 to Sep 24, about 120 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in St. Regis Falls?
The federal record around St. Regis Falls is light — 48 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (28), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in St. Regis Falls?
From about Sep 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 Oct 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at St. Regis Falls's scale — its 4b band and its 155-day season. Your yard writes its own version of St. Regis Falls'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 St. Regis Falls’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at St. Regis Falls's own scale — its own ~155-day season between 28°F freezes, the 827 acres it covers and 48 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- St. Regis Falls's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- St. Regis Falls's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 6 and Oct 8 and the ~155-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 48 documented contamination sites on the federal record near St. Regis Falls, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- St. Regis Falls's boundary and the 827 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~155-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at St. Regis Falls's own centroid, the Northeastern HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around St. Regis Falls 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 St. Regis Falls's 827 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Franklin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Franklin 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 Franklin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among St. Regis Falls's 827 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of St. Regis Falls you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 827 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 St. Regis Falls-wide figureread your own land →
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