Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, 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 Albrightsville, 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 Albrightsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Albrightsville — the short answer
Albrightsville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 187 days between hard freezes, across 646 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~187
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 646 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 Albrightsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Albrightsville's 187-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Albrightsville
Each reading below is measured for Albrightsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAlbrightsville runs about 187 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
MeasuredAlbrightsville 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 Albrightsville is in
Albrightsville sits in the North Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Albrightsville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Carbon County is mostly Ridge and Valley. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Albrightsville
Every plant below cleared Albrightsville's own zone 6a and its 187-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Albrightsville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 23 — 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 Albrightsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Albrightsville, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Albrightsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Albrightsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HICKORY RUN STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BANDIT TRUCK STOP NO 2Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- HICKORY RUN TRAVEL PLAZAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SUNOCO SVC STABrownfields · 2.3 mi
- BIG BOULDER SKI AREABrownfields · 2.7 mi
- INDIAN MTN MOTELUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- SQUARE ONE 110Underground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- GETZ FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- LAKE HARMONY GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- BIG BOULDER SKI AREAUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- KEN DETWEILER EXCAVATINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- 7 ELEVEN 40281Underground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Albrightsville'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 Albrightsville.
Total Sites
138
within ~10 miles of Albrightsville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Albrightsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Albrightsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Albrightsville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 104 sites within ~10 miles of Albrightsville. 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 Albrightsville
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Your land is one point inside Albrightsville
Everything above resolves to Albrightsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 646 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 Albrightsville Average
Albrightsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Albrightsville
- ●One soil character for all of Albrightsville
- ●Frost dates read at Albrightsville's scale: Apr 19 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Albrightsville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Three things about your lot that Albrightsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Albrightsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Albrightsville average
How we know this about Albrightsville
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 Albrightsville’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 Albrightsville
When does frost risk typically end in Albrightsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Albrightsville typically lands around Apr 19, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Albrightsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Albrightsville typically arrives around Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 9, so the watching starts about Sep 23 — about 187 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Albrightsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Albrightsville sees about 187 frost-free days — roughly Apr 19 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 10 to Oct 9, about 152 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Albrightsville?
The federal record around Albrightsville is a meaningful one — 138 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (104), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Albrightsville?
From about Sep 23 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Albrightsville's scale — its 6a band and its 187-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Albrightsville'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 Albrightsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Albrightsville's own scale — its own ~187-day season between 28°F freezes, the 646 acres it covers and 138 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Albrightsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Albrightsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 19 and Oct 23 and the ~187-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 138 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Albrightsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Albrightsville's boundary and the 646 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~187-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Albrightsville sits in the North Central Appalachians — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Albrightsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Albrightsville's 646 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Carbon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Carbon County
- The growing challenges every Pennsylvania grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Pennsylvania
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Carbon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Albrightsville's 646 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Albrightsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 646 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Albrightsville-wide figureread your own land →