Beurys Lake, 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 Beurys Lake, 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 Beurys Lake lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Beurys Lake — the short answer
Beurys Lake, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 250 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 250 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 Beurys Lake's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beurys Lake's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beurys Lake
Each reading below is measured for Beurys Lake itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeurys Lake 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
MeasuredBeurys Lake 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 Beurys Lake is in
Beurys Lake sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Beurys Lake's own centroid rather than borrowed from Schuylkill County.
What Grows in Beurys Lake
Every plant below cleared Beurys Lake'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 Beurys Lake?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Beurys Lake
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Beurys Lake, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Beurys Lake
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beurys Lake. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KIMMELS SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- J & D GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- PAINT N PLACE AUTOBODYBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- WALTER R LINDENMUTH LUMBER COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- BARRY TWP EQUIP SHEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- U.S. BUREAU OF PRISONS FCI SCHUYLKILLToxics Release Inventory · 2.1 mi
- EUGENE MELOCHECK & SONSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- SC 457Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- ASHLAND AREA WATER AUTHORITYPFAS · 2.5 mi
- PHEASANT RUN MINIT MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- UFP GORDONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- UNIVERSAL FOREST PROD EASTERN COToxics Release Inventory · 3.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beurys Lake'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 Beurys Lake.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beurys Lake
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beurys Lake
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beurys Lake, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Beurys Lake — PFAS (6 sites) and Superfund (6 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Beurys Lake
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 Beurys Lake average
Your land is one point inside Beurys Lake
Everything above resolves to Beurys Lake as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 250 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 Beurys Lake Average
Beurys Lake Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Beurys Lake
- ●One soil character for all of Beurys Lake
- ●Frost dates read at Beurys Lake's scale: Apr 12 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beurys Lake's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beurys Lake
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beurys Lake, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beurys Lake averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beurys Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beurys Lake average
How we know this about Beurys Lake
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 Beurys Lake’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 Beurys Lake
When does frost risk typically end in Beurys Lake?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beurys Lake typically lands around Apr 12, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Beurys Lake?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beurys Lake typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beurys Lake?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beurys Lake sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 16, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beurys Lake?
The federal record around Beurys Lake is a meaningful one — 411 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (244), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Beurys Lake?
From about Sep 30 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beurys Lake's scale — its 6b band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beurys Lake'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 Beurys Lake’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Beurys Lake's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 250 acres it covers and 411 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beurys Lake's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beurys Lake's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Oct 30 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 411 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beurys Lake, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beurys Lake's boundary and the 250 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 Beurys Lake's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Beurys Lakelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beurys Lake's 250 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Schuylkill County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Schuylkill 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 Schuylkill County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beurys Lake's 250 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beurys Lake you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 250 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Beurys Lake-wide figureread your own land →
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