Wurtsboro, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Wurtsboro, 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 Wurtsboro 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 Wurtsboro — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Wurtsboro — the short answer
Wurtsboro, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 195 days between hard freezes, across 799 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)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~195
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 799 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 Wurtsboro's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wurtsboro's 195-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wurtsboro
Each reading below is measured for Wurtsboro itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWurtsboro runs about 195 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
MeasuredWurtsboro 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 Wurtsboro is in
Wurtsboro sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Wurtsboro's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Sullivan County is mostly Northern Allegheny Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Wurtsboro
Every plant below cleared Wurtsboro's own zone 6b and its 195-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wurtsboro?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 Oct 27 — 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 Wurtsboro
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Wurtsboro, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Wurtsboro
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wurtsboro. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SULLIVAN CO - COUNTY BRIDGE 68 BIN 3346700Brownfields · 200 ft
- BANK OF NEW YORKUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- KEN KRAEMER AUTO SALESUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- STEWART'S SHOPS #376Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- SHREE PETROLEUM, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- ROOSABrownfields · 1000 ft
- EMMA C CHASE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- HERITAGENERGY-WURTSBOROUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- SV 524Nitrate · 0.5 mi
- SV 2Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- SV 551Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- ROBINSON AND SONSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wurtsboro'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 Wurtsboro.
Total Sites
352
within ~10 miles of Wurtsboro
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wurtsboro
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wurtsboro
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wurtsboro, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 6 sites within ~10 miles of Wurtsboro. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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).
Check your specific parcel in Wurtsboro
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 Wurtsboro average
Your land is one point inside Wurtsboro
Everything above resolves to Wurtsboro as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 799 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 Wurtsboro Average
Wurtsboro Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Wurtsboro
- ●One soil character for all of Wurtsboro
- ●Frost dates read at Wurtsboro's scale: Apr 15 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wurtsboro's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wurtsboro
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wurtsboro, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wurtsboro averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wurtsboro — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wurtsboro average
How we know this about Wurtsboro
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 Wurtsboro’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 Wurtsboro
When does frost risk typically end in Wurtsboro?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wurtsboro 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 Wurtsboro?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wurtsboro typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 195 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wurtsboro?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wurtsboro sees about 195 frost-free days — roughly Apr 15 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 6 to Oct 13, about 160 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wurtsboro?
The federal record around Wurtsboro is a meaningful one — 352 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (211), the nearest Brownfields 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 Wurtsboro?
From about Sep 27 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wurtsboro's scale — its 6b band and its 195-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wurtsboro'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 Wurtsboro’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Wurtsboro's own scale — its own ~195-day season between 28°F freezes, the 799 acres it covers and 352 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wurtsboro's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wurtsboro's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 15 and Oct 27 and the ~195-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 352 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wurtsboro, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wurtsboro's boundary and the 799 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~195-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Wurtsboro sits in the Ridge and Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Wurtsborolydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wurtsboro's 799 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sullivan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sullivan 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 Sullivan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wurtsboro's 799 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wurtsboro you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 799 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Wurtsboro-wide figureread your own land →
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