Callimont, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Callimont, 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 Callimont 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 Callimont — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Callimont — the short answer
Callimont, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 189 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~189
- 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 6a is Callimont's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Callimont's 189-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Callimont
Each reading below is measured for Callimont itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCallimont runs about 189 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
MeasuredCallimont 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 Callimont is in
Callimont sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Callimont's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Somerset County is mostly Central Appalachians. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Callimont
Every plant below cleared Callimont's own zone 6a and its 189-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Callimont?
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 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Callimont
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Callimont, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Callimont
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Callimont. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KLINK BOB AUTO BODY REPAIRBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- SO 100Nitrate · 4.2 mi
- MEYERSDALE WIND ENERGY CTRBrownfields · 4.3 mi
- SO 103Nitrate · 5.0 mi
- SO 851 (LUSMIbra23)Nitrate · 5.0 mi
- WHEEL HORSE WOOD PRODUCTSBrownfields · 5.1 mi
- CSX MEYERSDALEUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- SATELLITE MAINT BLDG 9Underground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- MEYERSDALE COMM HOSPUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- BAKER CHEVROLET COUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- SHEETZ 89Underground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- SHEETZ 89 REBUILDUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Callimont'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 Callimont.
Total Sites
156
within ~10 miles of Callimont
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
9 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Callimont
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Callimont
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Callimont, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of Callimont. 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.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Callimont
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 Callimont average
Your land is one point inside Callimont
Everything above resolves to Callimont 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 Callimont Average
Callimont Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Callimont
- ●One soil character for all of Callimont
- ●Frost dates read at Callimont's scale: Apr 22 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Callimont's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Callimont
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Three things about your lot that Callimont averages can't show:
We read public map data around Callimont — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Callimont average
How we know this about Callimont
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 Callimont’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 Callimont
When does frost risk typically end in Callimont?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Callimont typically lands around Apr 22, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Callimont?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Callimont typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 189 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Callimont?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Callimont sees about 189 frost-free days — roughly Apr 22 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 13 to Oct 14, about 154 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Callimont?
The federal record around Callimont shows 156 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (89), the nearest Brownfields record about 3.5 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 Callimont?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Callimont's scale — its 6a band and its 189-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Callimont'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 Callimont’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Callimont's own scale — its own ~189-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,788 acres it covers and 156 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Callimont's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Callimont's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 22 and Oct 28 and the ~189-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 156 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Callimont, the closest Brownfields record about 3.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Callimont's boundary and the 2,788 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~189-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Callimont 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 Callimontlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Callimont's 2,788 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Somerset County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Somerset 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 Somerset County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Callimont's 2,788 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Callimont you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,788 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 3.5 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 Callimont-wide figureread your own land →