Brodheadsville, 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.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Brodheadsville, 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 Brodheadsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Brodheadsville — the short answer
Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 200 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~200
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Brodheadsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Brodheadsville's 200-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Brodheadsville
Each reading below is measured for Brodheadsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBrodheadsville runs about 200 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
MeasuredBrodheadsville 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 Brodheadsville is in
Brodheadsville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Brodheadsville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Monroe County is mostly North Central Appalachians. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Brodheadsville
Every plant below cleared Brodheadsville's own zone 6b and its 200-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Brodheadsville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Brodheadsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Brodheadsville, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Brodheadsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Brodheadsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- XPRESS GAS & C MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- VARTANIAN INDS INCBrownfields · 2100 ft
- MO 682Nitrate · 2300 ft
- PLEASANT VALLEY SCH DIST BUS COMPOUNDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- TOLINOS FUEL SVC BRODHEADSVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PLEASANT VALLEY MOTORS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #1320Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- SHOP N GOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- RITE AID CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- POCONO AUTOMART AUTOBODYBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- WEST END FIRE CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- TRACTOR SUPPLY CO #1573Brownfields · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Brodheadsville'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 Brodheadsville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Brodheadsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Brodheadsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Brodheadsville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 183 sites within ~10 miles of Brodheadsville. 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 Brodheadsville
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 Brodheadsville average
Your land is one point inside Brodheadsville
Everything above resolves to Brodheadsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Brodheadsville Average
Brodheadsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Brodheadsville
- ●One soil character for all of Brodheadsville
- ●Frost dates read at Brodheadsville's scale: Apr 10 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Brodheadsville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Brodheadsville
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Three things about your lot that Brodheadsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Brodheadsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Brodheadsville average
How we know this about Brodheadsville
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 Brodheadsville’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 Brodheadsville
When does frost risk typically end in Brodheadsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Brodheadsville typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Brodheadsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Brodheadsville typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 200 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Brodheadsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Brodheadsville sees about 200 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 13, about 165 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Brodheadsville?
The federal record around Brodheadsville is a meaningful one — 272 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (183), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Brodheadsville?
From about Sep 27 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Brodheadsville's scale — its 6b band and its 200-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Brodheadsville'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 Brodheadsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Brodheadsville's own scale — its own ~200-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,737 acres it covers and 272 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Brodheadsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Brodheadsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Oct 27 and the ~200-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 272 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Brodheadsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Brodheadsville's boundary and the 2,737 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~200-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Brodheadsville sits in the Ridge and Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Brodheadsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Brodheadsville's 2,737 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Monroe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Monroe 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 Monroe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Brodheadsville's 2,737 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Brodheadsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,737 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Brodheadsville-wide figureread your own land →