Tannersville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Tannersville, 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 Tannersville 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 Tannersville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Tannersville — the short answer
Tannersville, New York: USDA zone 5b, about 158 days between hard freezes, across 716 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~158
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 716 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 5b is Tannersville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tannersville's 158-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tannersville
Each reading below is measured for Tannersville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTannersville runs about 158 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
MeasuredTannersville sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Tannersville is in
Tannersville sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Tannersville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Greene County is mostly Northern Allegheny Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Tannersville
Every plant below cleared Tannersville's own zone 5b and its 158-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tannersville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Tannersville
Spotted lanternfly documented 12 miles from Tannersville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Tannersville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tannersville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BYRNE'S GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- THORPE'S PONTIAC LANEUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- NEW YORK TELEPHONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- HUNTER-TANNERSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- AGWAY ENERGY PRODUCTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- VILLAGE OF TANNERSVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- NYCDEP - TANNERSVILLE WWTPBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- TOWN OF HUNTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- NYSDOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- GO GREENE FOODMARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- RAINBOW OPERATION INC.(DBA SKI CORTINA)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- TRAVELERS RESTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tannersville'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 Tannersville.
Total Sites
126
within ~10 miles of Tannersville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tannersville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tannersville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tannersville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 38 sites within ~10 miles of Tannersville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Tannersville
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 Tannersville average
Your land is one point inside Tannersville
Everything above resolves to Tannersville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 716 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 Tannersville Average
Tannersville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Tannersville
- ●One soil character for all of Tannersville
- ●Frost dates read at Tannersville's scale: May 5 to Oct 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tannersville's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tannersville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tannersville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tannersville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tannersville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tannersville average
How we know this about Tannersville
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 Tannersville’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 Tannersville
When does frost risk typically end in Tannersville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tannersville typically lands around May 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Tannersville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tannersville typically arrives around Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 26, so the watching starts about Sep 10 — about 158 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tannersville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tannersville sees about 158 frost-free days — roughly May 5 through Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 26 to Sep 26, about 123 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tannersville?
The federal record around Tannersville shows 126 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (73), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Tannersville?
From about Sep 10 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tannersville's scale — its 5b band and its 158-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tannersville'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 Tannersville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Tannersville's own scale — its own ~158-day season between 28°F freezes, the 716 acres it covers and 126 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tannersville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tannersville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 5 and Oct 10 and the ~158-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 126 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tannersville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tannersville's boundary and the 716 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~158-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Tannersville sits in the Northeastern Highlands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Tannersvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tannersville's 716 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Greene County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Greene 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 Greene County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tannersville's 716 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tannersville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 716 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 Tannersville-wide figureread your own land →