Victor, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Victor, 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 Victor 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 Victor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Victor — the short answer
Victor, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 204 days between hard freezes, across 875 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~204
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 875 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 Victor's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Victor's 204-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Victor
Each reading below is measured for Victor itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredVictor runs about 204 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
MeasuredVictor 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 Victor is in
Victor sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Victor's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ontario County.
What Grows in Victor
Every plant below cleared Victor's own zone 6b and its 204-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Victor?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Victor
Spotted lanternfly documented 17 miles from Victor, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Victor
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Victor. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- J-MART, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- R MAC DONALD ELECTRICBrownfields · 550 ft
- TOWN OF VICTORUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- GERBER COLLISION & GLASS VICTORBrownfields · 700 ft
- FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- VICTOR TOWN HALL BUILDINGBrownfields · 750 ft
- RUBEL MACHINE AND TOOL, INC. DBA ROETIN INDUSTRIESBrownfields · 1000 ft
- NYSDOT BIN 1035179Brownfields · 1000 ft
- EXPRESS MART #366Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- VICTOR INSULATORS, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- MARK STEVEN SERVICE MERCHANDISERS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Victor'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 Victor.
Total Sites
644
within ~10 miles of Victor
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
9 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Victor
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Victor
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Victor, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Victor — CAFO (11 sites) and Superfund (9 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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).
Check your specific parcel in Victor
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 Victor
Everything above resolves to Victor as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 875 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 Victor Average
Victor Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Victor
- ●One soil character for all of Victor
- ●Frost dates read at Victor's scale: Apr 15 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Victor's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Victor
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Victor, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Victor averages can't show:
We read public map data around Victor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Victor average
How we know this about Victor
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 Victor’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 Victor
When does frost risk typically end in Victor?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Victor typically lands around Apr 15, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Victor?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Victor typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 204 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Victor?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Victor sees about 204 frost-free days — roughly Apr 15 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 6 to Oct 22, about 169 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Victor?
The federal record around Victor is a meaningful one — 644 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (333), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Victor?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Victor's scale — its 6b band and its 204-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Victor'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 Victor’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Victor's own scale — its own ~204-day season between 28°F freezes, the 875 acres it covers and 644 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Victor's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Victor's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 15 and Nov 5 and the ~204-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 644 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Victor, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Victor's boundary and the 875 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~204-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Victor's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Victorlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Victor's 875 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ontario County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ontario 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 Ontario County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Victor's 875 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Victor you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 875 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 Victor-wide figureread your own land →
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