Warrensburg, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Warrensburg, 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 Warrensburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Warrensburg — the short answer
Warrensburg, New York: USDA zone 5a, about 175 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~175
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 5a is Warrensburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Warrensburg's 175-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Warrensburg
Each reading below is measured for Warrensburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWarrensburg runs about 175 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
MeasuredWarrensburg sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
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 Warrensburg is in
Warrensburg sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Warrensburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Warren County.
What Grows in Warrensburg
Every plant below cleared Warrensburg's own zone 5a and its 175-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Warrensburg?
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 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 18 — 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 Warrensburg
Spotted lanternfly documented 14 miles from Warrensburg, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Warrensburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Warrensburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- COUNTRYSIDE ADULT HOMEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- WR 83Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- BOB GRIFFIN & SONS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- WARRENSBURG JR/SR HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- WR2719, NYNitrate · 0.9 mi
- WARREN COUNTY DEPT PUBLIC WKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- NYSDOT- WARRENSBURGBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- JACOB & TONEY, DELI + MEAT STORE OF THE NORTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- TOWN OF WARRENSBURG HIGHWAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- NYSDOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- DBA RITE AID #00164Brownfields · 1.0 mi
- WARREN COUNTY MAINTENANCE SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Warrensburg'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 Warrensburg.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Warrensburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Warrensburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Warrensburg, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 107 sites within ~10 miles of Warrensburg. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Warrensburg
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 Warrensburg average
Your land is one point inside Warrensburg
Everything above resolves to Warrensburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Warrensburg Average
Warrensburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Warrensburg
- ●One soil character for all of Warrensburg
- ●Frost dates read at Warrensburg's scale: Apr 26 to Oct 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Warrensburg's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Warrensburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Warrensburg, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Warrensburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Warrensburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Warrensburg average
How we know this about Warrensburg
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 Warrensburg’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 Warrensburg
When does frost risk typically end in Warrensburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Warrensburg typically lands around Apr 26, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Warrensburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Warrensburg typically arrives around Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 4, so the watching starts about Sep 18 — about 175 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Warrensburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Warrensburg sees about 175 frost-free days — roughly Apr 26 through Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 17 to Oct 4, about 140 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Warrensburg?
The federal record around Warrensburg shows 171 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (107), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Warrensburg?
From about Sep 18 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Warrensburg's scale — its 5a band and its 175-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Warrensburg'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 Warrensburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Warrensburg's own scale — its own ~175-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,324 acres it covers and 171 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Warrensburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Warrensburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 26 and Oct 18 and the ~175-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 171 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Warrensburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Warrensburg's boundary and the 4,324 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~175-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Warrensburg's own centroid, the Northeastern HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Warrensburglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Warrensburg's 4,324 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Warren County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Warren 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 Warren County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Warrensburg's 4,324 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Warrensburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,324 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Warrensburg-wide figureread your own land →
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