Almedia, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Almedia, 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 Almedia lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Almedia — the short answer
Almedia, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 196 days between hard freezes, across 449 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- 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
- ~196
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 449 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 Almedia's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Almedia's 196-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Almedia
Each reading below is measured for Almedia itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAlmedia runs about 196 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
MeasuredAlmedia 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 Almedia is in
Almedia sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Almedia's own centroid rather than borrowed from Columbia County.
What Grows in Almedia
Every plant below cleared Almedia's own zone 6b and its 196-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Almedia?
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 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (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. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Almedia
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Almedia, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Almedia
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Almedia. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PERMA GLAZE INCBrownfields · 850 ft
- KILE DISPOSAL SERVICEBrownfields · 1300 ft
- VAN DINE STREET PROPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- ZIP N GO MKTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Dave's Seafood Outcrop OccurrenceMining · 2000 ft
- Webb MineMining · 2100 ft
- USR METALS INCToxics Release Inventory · 2200 ft
- USR METALS INCBrownfields · 2200 ft
- SAFETY LIGHT CORPORATIONSuperfund · 2300 ft
- SAFETY LIGHT CORPORATIONBrownfields · 2300 ft
- SEKISUI KYDEXToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- SCOTT TOWN AUTO RENTALBrownfields · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Almedia'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 Almedia.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Almedia
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Almedia
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Almedia, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 207 sites within ~10 miles of Almedia. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Almedia
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 Almedia average
Your land is one point inside Almedia
Everything above resolves to Almedia as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 449 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 Almedia Average
Almedia Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Almedia
- ●One soil character for all of Almedia
- ●Frost dates read at Almedia's scale: Apr 13 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Almedia's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Almedia
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Almedia, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Almedia — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Almedia average
How we know this about Almedia
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 Almedia’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 Almedia
When does frost risk typically end in Almedia?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Almedia typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Almedia?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Almedia 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 196 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Almedia?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Almedia sees about 196 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 12, about 161 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Almedia?
The federal record around Almedia is a meaningful one — 329 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (207), the nearest Brownfields 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 Almedia?
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 Almedia's scale — its 6b band and its 196-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Almedia'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 Almedia’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Almedia's own scale — its own ~196-day season between 28°F freezes, the 449 acres it covers and 329 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Almedia's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Almedia's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Oct 26 and the ~196-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 329 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Almedia, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Almedia's boundary and the 449 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~196-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Almedia's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Almedialydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Almedia's 449 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Columbia County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Columbia 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 Columbia County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Almedia's 449 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Almedia you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 449 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Almedia-wide figureread your own land →
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