Westvale, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Westvale, 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 Westvale 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 Westvale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Westvale — the short answer
Westvale, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 206 days between hard freezes, across 863 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~206
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 863 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 Westvale's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Westvale's 206-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Westvale
Each reading below is measured for Westvale itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWestvale runs about 206 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
MeasuredWestvale 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 Westvale is in
Westvale sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Westvale's own centroid rather than borrowed from Onondaga County.
What Grows in Westvale
Every plant below cleared Westvale's own zone 6a and its 206-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Westvale?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Westvale
Spotted lanternfly documented 5 miles from Westvale, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Westvale
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Westvale. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TOWN OF GEDDES HIGHWAY DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- PAT'S AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- GENESEE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- CARR'S AUTOMOTIVE SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- HARBOR PHARMACY LLCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- WEST GENESEE SALES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BISHOPS ACADEMY AT ST CHARLESBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- WEGMANS FOOD MARKET #39 FAIRMOUNTBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- DELTA SONIC CAR WASH - GEDDESUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- ADVANCED AUTOMOTIVE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- GLIDER-TAUNTONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HESS SERVICE STATIONBrownfields · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Westvale'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 Westvale.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Westvale
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Westvale
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Westvale
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 Westvale average
Your land is one point inside Westvale
Everything above resolves to Westvale as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 863 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 Westvale Average
Westvale Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Westvale
- ●One soil character for all of Westvale
- ●Frost dates read at Westvale's scale: Apr 12 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Westvale's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Westvale
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Westvale, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Westvale averages can't show:
We read public map data around Westvale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Westvale average
How we know this about Westvale
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 Westvale’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 Westvale
When does frost risk typically end in Westvale?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Westvale typically lands around Apr 12, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Westvale?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Westvale typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 206 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Westvale?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Westvale sees about 206 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 21, about 171 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Westvale?
The federal record around Westvale is a meaningful one — 1,888 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (911), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Westvale?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Westvale's scale — its 6a band and its 206-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Westvale'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 Westvale’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Westvale's own scale — its own ~206-day season between 28°F freezes, the 863 acres it covers and 1,888 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Westvale's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Westvale's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Nov 4 and the ~206-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,888 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Westvale, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Westvale's boundary and the 863 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~206-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Westvale's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Westvalelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Westvale's 863 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Onondaga County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Onondaga 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 Onondaga County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Westvale's 863 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Westvale you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 863 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Westvale-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across New YorkWestvale sits outside our named growing regions, so New York as a whole is its closest context here.