Bald Eagle, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Bald Eagle, 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 Bald Eagle lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bald Eagle — the short answer
Bald Eagle, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 470 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 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 470 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 Bald Eagle's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bald Eagle's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bald Eagle
Each reading below is measured for Bald Eagle itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBald Eagle runs about 201 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBald Eagle 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 Bald Eagle is in
Bald Eagle sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bald Eagle's own centroid rather than borrowed from Blair County.
What Grows in Bald Eagle
Every plant below cleared Bald Eagle's own zone 6b and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bald Eagle?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. 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 31 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Bald Eagle
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Bald Eagle, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bald Eagle
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bald Eagle. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NORTHWOOD MICROWAVE TOWERUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- FED CARBIDE/BALD EAGLE PLTBrownfields · 1700 ft
- MILLER PARTS & SERVICE INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- FORT DEARBORN CO/TYRONEToxics Release Inventory · 1.1 mi
- FORT DEARBORN CO/TYRONEBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- RAY BURIAL VAULTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- TYRONE SUB DIST OFCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- TELE EQUIP BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- HU 407Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- HELENA CHEMICAL COBrownfields · 2.6 mi
- PERFECTION AUTO BODYBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- WR GRACE & CO CONN/TYRONEBrownfields · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bald Eagle'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 Bald Eagle.
Total Sites
160
within ~10 miles of Bald Eagle
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bald Eagle
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bald Eagle
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bald Eagle, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Bald Eagle — CAFO (3 sites) and Nitrate (58 sites). 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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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 Bald Eagle
Everything above resolves to Bald Eagle as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 470 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 Bald Eagle Average
Bald Eagle Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Bald Eagle
- ●One soil character for all of Bald Eagle
- ●Frost dates read at Bald Eagle's scale: Apr 13 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bald Eagle's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bald Eagle
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bald Eagle, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bald Eagle averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bald Eagle — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bald Eagle average
How we know this about Bald Eagle
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 Bald Eagle’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 Bald Eagle
When does frost risk typically end in Bald Eagle?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bald Eagle 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 Bald Eagle?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bald Eagle typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bald Eagle?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bald Eagle sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 17, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bald Eagle?
The federal record around Bald Eagle shows 160 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (58), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Bald Eagle?
From about Oct 1 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 31 (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 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bald Eagle's scale — its 6b band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bald Eagle'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 Bald Eagle’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bald Eagle's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 470 acres it covers and 160 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bald Eagle's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bald Eagle's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Oct 31 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 160 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bald Eagle, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bald Eagle's boundary and the 470 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bald Eagle's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Bald Eaglelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bald Eagle's 470 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Blair County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Blair 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 Blair County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bald Eagle's 470 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bald Eagle you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 470 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Bald Eagle-wide figureread your own land →
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