Woodsville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Woodsville, 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 Woodsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Woodsville — the short answer
Woodsville, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 185 days between hard freezes, across 203 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~185
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 203 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 Woodsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodsville's 185-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodsville
Each reading below is measured for Woodsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodsville runs about 185 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
MeasuredWoodsville 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 Woodsville is in
Woodsville sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Livingston County.
What Grows in Woodsville
Every plant below cleared Woodsville's own zone 6a and its 185-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodsville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Woodsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 23 miles from Woodsville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DANSVILLE CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTHBrownfields · 2000 ft
- DANSVILLE SCHOOL BUS GARAGEBrownfields · 2000 ft
- DANSVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 2000 ft
- DANSVILLE VILLAGEPFAS · 0.6 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 1069920Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- AMERICAN MOTIVE POWER INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- AMERICAN MOTIVE POWER INCToxics Release Inventory · 0.7 mi
- DANSVILLE PROPERTIES, LLCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- AGT LLC-LMC PIPEYARDBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- ENSALDOBRETTA INCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- AVANGRID AT LMC INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTORS INCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- KWIK FILL M0050-116Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodsville'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 Woodsville.
Total Sites
174
within ~10 miles of Woodsville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodsville, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 14 sites within ~10 miles of Woodsville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Woodsville
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 Woodsville average
Your land is one point inside Woodsville
Everything above resolves to Woodsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 203 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 Woodsville Average
Woodsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Woodsville
- ●One soil character for all of Woodsville
- ●Frost dates read at Woodsville's scale: Apr 24 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodsville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodsville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodsville average
How we know this about Woodsville
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 Woodsville’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 Woodsville
When does frost risk typically end in Woodsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodsville typically lands around Apr 24, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Woodsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodsville typically arrives around Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 12, so the watching starts about Sep 26 — about 185 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodsville sees about 185 frost-free days — roughly Apr 24 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 15 to Oct 12, about 150 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodsville?
The federal record around Woodsville shows 174 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (84), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.4 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 Woodsville?
From about Sep 26 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodsville's scale — its 6a band and its 185-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodsville'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 Woodsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Woodsville's own scale — its own ~185-day season between 28°F freezes, the 203 acres it covers and 174 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 24 and Oct 26 and the ~185-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 174 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodsville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodsville's boundary and the 203 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~185-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodsville's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Woodsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodsville's 203 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Livingston County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Livingston 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 Livingston County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodsville's 203 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 203 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 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 Woodsville-wide figureread your own land →
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