Weston Mills, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Weston Mills, 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 Weston Mills lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Weston Mills — the short answer
Weston Mills, New York: USDA zone 5b, about 162 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~162
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Weston Mills's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Weston Mills's 162-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Weston Mills
Each reading below is measured for Weston Mills itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWeston Mills runs about 162 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
MeasuredWeston Mills 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 Weston Mills is in
Weston Mills sits in the North Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Weston Mills's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cattaraugus County.
What Grows in Weston Mills
Every plant below cleared Weston Mills's own zone 5b and its 162-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Weston Mills?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Weston Mills
Spotted lanternfly documented 8 miles from Weston Mills, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Weston Mills
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Weston Mills. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DRESSER WATER, LLCToxics Release Inventory · 1000 ft
- 1587 HASKELL RD OLEAN LLCBrownfields · 2300 ft
- OLEAN WHOLESALE GROCERY CO-OPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- OLEAN STEELSuperfund · 0.7 mi
- OLEAN STEELBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- KEYSTONE POLYURETHANE PRODUCTS GROUP INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 0.8 mi
- KEYSTONE POLYURETHANE PRODUCTS GROUP INC.Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- COOPER POWER SYS INCBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- COOPER POWER SYS INCToxics Release Inventory · 0.9 mi
- KWIK FILL M0028/067Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- GRIFFITH OIL CO INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.1 mi
- MASTEL FORD INCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Weston Mills'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 Weston Mills.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Weston Mills
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Weston Mills
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Weston Mills, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of Weston Mills. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
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Your land is one point inside Weston Mills
Everything above resolves to Weston Mills as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Weston Mills Average
Weston Mills Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Weston Mills
- ●One soil character for all of Weston Mills
- ●Frost dates read at Weston Mills's scale: May 6 to Oct 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Weston Mills's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Weston Mills — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Weston Mills
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 Weston Mills’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 Weston Mills
When does frost risk typically end in Weston Mills?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Weston Mills typically lands around May 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Weston Mills?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Weston Mills typically arrives around Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 1, so the watching starts about Sep 15 — about 162 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Weston Mills?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Weston Mills sees about 162 frost-free days — roughly May 6 through Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 27 to Oct 1, about 127 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Weston Mills?
The federal record around Weston Mills is a meaningful one — 273 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (123), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.2 miles 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 Weston Mills?
From about Sep 15 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Weston Mills's scale — its 5b band and its 162-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Weston Mills'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 Weston Mills’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Weston Mills's own scale — its own ~162-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,511 acres it covers and 273 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Weston Mills's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Weston Mills's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 6 and Oct 15 and the ~162-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 273 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Weston Mills, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Weston Mills's boundary and the 4,511 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~162-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Weston Mills's own centroid, the North Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Weston Millslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Weston Mills's 4,511 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cattaraugus County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cattaraugus 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 Cattaraugus County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Weston Mills's 4,511 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Weston Mills you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,511 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory 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 Weston Mills-wide figureread your own land →
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