Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Burgettstown, 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 Burgettstown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Burgettstown — the short answer
Burgettstown, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 198 days between hard freezes, across 398 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~198
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 398 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 Burgettstown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Burgettstown's 198-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Burgettstown
Each reading below is measured for Burgettstown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBurgettstown runs about 198 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
MeasuredBurgettstown 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 Burgettstown is in
Burgettstown sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Burgettstown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Washington County.
What Grows in Burgettstown
Every plant below cleared Burgettstown's own zone 6b and its 198-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Burgettstown?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — 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 Burgettstown
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Burgettstown, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Burgettstown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Burgettstown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BONI PROFESSIONAL DRYCLEANINGBrownfields · 250 ft
- HANOVER TWP WASHINGTON CNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- PROGARS COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- COEN OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR STORE NO 1671Brownfields · 350 ft
- ALLISON SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- ALLISON SVC STABrownfields · 550 ft
- SARRACINO AUTO SVCBrownfields · 700 ft
- BURGETTSTOWN AREA SCH DISTUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- KWIK FILL S 74Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- WAYNES'S BODY SHOPBrownfields · 2100 ft
- UNI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Burgettstown'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 Burgettstown.
Total Sites
283
within ~10 miles of Burgettstown
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Burgettstown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Burgettstown
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Burgettstown
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 Burgettstown
Everything above resolves to Burgettstown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 398 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 Burgettstown Average
Burgettstown Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Burgettstown
- ●One soil character for all of Burgettstown
- ●Frost dates read at Burgettstown's scale: Apr 14 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Burgettstown's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Burgettstown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Burgettstown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Burgettstown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Burgettstown
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 Burgettstown’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 Burgettstown
When does frost risk typically end in Burgettstown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Burgettstown typically lands around Apr 14, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Burgettstown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Burgettstown typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 198 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Burgettstown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Burgettstown sees about 198 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 15, about 163 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Burgettstown?
The federal record around Burgettstown is a meaningful one — 283 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (149), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Burgettstown?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Burgettstown's scale — its 6b band and its 198-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Burgettstown'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 Burgettstown’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Burgettstown's own scale — its own ~198-day season between 28°F freezes, the 398 acres it covers and 283 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Burgettstown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Burgettstown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Oct 29 and the ~198-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 283 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Burgettstown, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Burgettstown's boundary and the 398 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~198-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Burgettstown's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Burgettstownlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Burgettstown's 398 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Washington County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Washington 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 Washington County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Burgettstown's 398 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Burgettstown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 398 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 Burgettstown-wide figureread your own land →
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