Arnot, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Arnot, 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 Arnot 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 Arnot — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Arnot — the short answer
Arnot, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 162 days between hard freezes, across 657 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~162
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 657 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 Arnot's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Arnot's 162-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Arnot
Each reading below is measured for Arnot itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredArnot runs about 162 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
MeasuredArnot 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 Arnot is in
Arnot sits in the North Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Arnot's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tioga County.
What Grows in Arnot
Every plant below cleared Arnot's own zone 6a and its 162-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Arnot?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 12 — 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 Arnot
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Arnot, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Arnot
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Arnot. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INCBrownfields · 350 ft
- UPS MANSFIELDUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- SIGNOR & SHERANT LUMBERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- SIGNOR BROSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- REPSOL DCNR 594 (02-205) WELL SITEBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- ENG DIST 3 0 TIOGA CNTY PROJECTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- LYCOMING SILICA SAND BLOSSBURGBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- KWIK FILL M0390Underground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- BLOSSBURG BORO PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- ACORN MKT 35Underground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- WARD MFG PLT 1 & 2Brownfields · 3.2 mi
- WARD MFG PLT 1 & 2Toxics Release Inventory · 3.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Arnot'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 Arnot.
Total Sites
108
within ~10 miles of Arnot
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Arnot
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Arnot
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Arnot, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 5 sites within ~10 miles of Arnot. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Arnot
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Arnot
Everything above resolves to Arnot as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 657 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 Arnot Average
Arnot Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Arnot
- ●One soil character for all of Arnot
- ●Frost dates read at Arnot's scale: May 3 to Oct 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Arnot's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Arnot
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Arnot, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Arnot averages can't show:
We read public map data around Arnot — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Arnot average
How we know this about Arnot
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 Arnot’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 Arnot
When does frost risk typically end in Arnot?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Arnot typically lands around May 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Arnot?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Arnot typically arrives around Oct 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 28, so the watching starts about Sep 12 — about 162 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Arnot?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Arnot sees about 162 frost-free days — roughly May 3 through Oct 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 24 to Sep 28, about 127 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Arnot?
The federal record around Arnot shows 108 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (42), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Arnot?
From about Sep 12 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Arnot's scale — its 6a band and its 162-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Arnot'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 Arnot’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Arnot's own scale — its own ~162-day season between 28°F freezes, the 657 acres it covers and 108 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Arnot's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Arnot's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 3 and Oct 12 and the ~162-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 108 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Arnot, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Arnot's boundary and the 657 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~162-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Arnot's own centroid, the North Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Arnotlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Arnot's 657 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tioga County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tioga 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 Tioga County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Arnot's 657 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Arnot you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 657 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 Arnot-wide figureread your own land →