Trumansburg, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Trumansburg, 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 Trumansburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Trumansburg — the short answer
Trumansburg, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 195 days between hard freezes, across 888 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~195
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 888 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 6a is Trumansburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Trumansburg's 195-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Trumansburg
Each reading below is measured for Trumansburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTrumansburg runs about 195 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
MeasuredTrumansburg sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Trumansburg is in
Trumansburg sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Trumansburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tompkins County.
What Grows in Trumansburg
Every plant below cleared Trumansburg's own zone 6a and its 195-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Trumansburg?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Trumansburg
Spotted lanternfly documented 12 miles from Trumansburg, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Trumansburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Trumansburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T BURG MOBILE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- SMITH-WEATHERBY INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- JUGHEAD'S PIZZA & SUB'SUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- MAGUIRE FORD LINCOLN-MERCURYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- FORMER LARRY GOW CHEVROLET PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- TRUMANSBURG CENTRAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- TRUMANSBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICTBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- PAY-LO GAS CO. INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BYRNE DAIRY TRUMANSBURGUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- BOWERS FUEL CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #10064Brownfields · 1.0 mi
- T-BURG FOODLINE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Trumansburg'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 Trumansburg.
Total Sites
187
within ~10 miles of Trumansburg
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Trumansburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Trumansburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Trumansburg, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 20 sites within ~10 miles of Trumansburg. 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.
Check your specific parcel in Trumansburg
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Trumansburg
Everything above resolves to Trumansburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 888 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 Trumansburg Average
Trumansburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Trumansburg
- ●One soil character for all of Trumansburg
- ●Frost dates read at Trumansburg's scale: Apr 19 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Trumansburg's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Trumansburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Trumansburg, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Trumansburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Trumansburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Trumansburg average
How we know this about Trumansburg
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 Trumansburg’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 Trumansburg
When does frost risk typically end in Trumansburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Trumansburg typically lands around Apr 19, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Trumansburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Trumansburg typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 195 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Trumansburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Trumansburg sees about 195 frost-free days — roughly Apr 19 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 10 to Oct 17, about 160 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Trumansburg?
The federal record around Trumansburg shows 187 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (91), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 Trumansburg?
From about Oct 1 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 31 (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 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Trumansburg's scale — its 6a band and its 195-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Trumansburg'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 Trumansburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Trumansburg's own scale — its own ~195-day season between 28°F freezes, the 888 acres it covers and 187 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Trumansburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Trumansburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 19 and Oct 31 and the ~195-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 187 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Trumansburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Trumansburg's boundary and the 888 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~195-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Trumansburg's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Trumansburglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Trumansburg's 888 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tompkins County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tompkins 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 Tompkins County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Trumansburg's 888 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Trumansburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 888 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 Trumansburg-wide figureread your own land →
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