Titusville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Titusville, 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 Titusville 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 Titusville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Titusville — the short answer
Titusville, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 198 days between hard freezes, across 442 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~198
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 442 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 Titusville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Titusville's 198-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Titusville
Each reading below is measured for Titusville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTitusville runs about 198 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
MeasuredTitusville 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 Titusville is in
Titusville sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Titusville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Dutchess County is mostly Northeastern Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Titusville
Every plant below cleared Titusville's own zone 6b and its 198-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Titusville?
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 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 26 — 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 Titusville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Titusville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Titusville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Titusville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TITUSVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- ARLINGTON CSD - TITUSVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLBrownfields · 1700 ft
- SORA ENTERPRISES, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- POUGHKEEPSIE TOWNWIDE WDPFAS · 0.7 mi
- MANCHESTER WATER DISTRICT, NYPFAS · 0.7 mi
- POUGHKEEPSIE CITYPFAS · 0.7 mi
- H O PENN MACHINERY CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- H O PENN MACHINERYBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- MOBILUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- BEST WESTERN PLUSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- LAWRENCE F. SHEEHAN ENT. INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- RONALD H PRICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Titusville'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 Titusville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Titusville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Titusville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Titusville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Titusville — PFAS (11 sites) and Superfund (13 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Titusville
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 Titusville average
Your land is one point inside Titusville
Everything above resolves to Titusville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 442 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 Titusville Average
Titusville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Titusville
- ●One soil character for all of Titusville
- ●Frost dates read at Titusville's scale: Apr 11 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Titusville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Titusville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Titusville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Titusville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Titusville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Titusville average
How we know this about Titusville
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 Titusville’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 Titusville
When does frost risk typically end in Titusville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Titusville typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Titusville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Titusville typically arrives around Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 12, so the watching starts about Sep 26 — about 198 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Titusville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Titusville sees about 198 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 12, about 163 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Titusville?
The federal record around Titusville runs heavier than most — 985 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (615), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Titusville?
From about Sep 26 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Titusville's scale — its 6b band and its 198-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Titusville'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 Titusville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Titusville's own scale — its own ~198-day season between 28°F freezes, the 442 acres it covers and 985 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Titusville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Titusville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Oct 26 and the ~198-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 985 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Titusville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Titusville's boundary and the 442 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~198-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Titusville sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Titusvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Titusville's 442 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 Titusville's 442 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Titusville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 442 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Titusville-wide figureread your own land →
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