Canadohta Lake, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Canadohta 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 Canadohta Lake 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 Canadohta Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Canadohta Lake — the short answer
Canadohta Lake, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 181 days between hard freezes, across 771 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 30
- 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
- ~181
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 771 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 Canadohta Lake's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Canadohta Lake's 181-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Canadohta Lake
Each reading below is measured for Canadohta Lake itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCanadohta Lake runs about 181 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
MeasuredCanadohta Lake 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 Canadohta Lake is in
Canadohta Lake sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Canadohta Lake's own centroid rather than borrowed from Crawford County.
What Grows in Canadohta Lake
Every plant below cleared Canadohta Lake's own zone 6a and its 181-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Canadohta Lake?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 30 (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. 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 Canadohta Lake
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Canadohta Lake, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Canadohta Lake
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Canadohta Lake. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CW 2413Nitrate · 2300 ft
- LLOYDS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- LINCAN FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- BLOOMFIELD TWP CRAWFORD CNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- BLOOMFIELD TWP STPToxics Release Inventory · 1.1 mi
- BLOOMFIELD TWP SEW AUTH OFCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- BALLOG FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- JE ERNST PIPELINE CONSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- FORMERLY TNT ENTERPRISESUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- LOMAK FUEL PUMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- ATHENS TWP SPVRUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- WATERFORD SAND & GRAVEL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Canadohta 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 Canadohta Lake.
Total Sites
98
within ~10 miles of Canadohta Lake
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
9 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Canadohta Lake
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Canadohta Lake
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Canadohta Lake, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Canadohta Lake — Toxics Release Inventory (9 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (62 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Canadohta 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 Canadohta Lake average
Your land is one point inside Canadohta Lake
Everything above resolves to Canadohta Lake as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 771 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 Canadohta Lake Average
Canadohta Lake Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Canadohta Lake
- ●One soil character for all of Canadohta Lake
- ●Frost dates read at Canadohta Lake's scale: Apr 30 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Canadohta Lake's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Canadohta Lake
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Canadohta Lake, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Canadohta Lake averages can't show:
We read public map data around Canadohta Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Canadohta Lake average
How we know this about Canadohta 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 Canadohta 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 Canadohta Lake
When does frost risk typically end in Canadohta Lake?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Canadohta Lake typically lands around Apr 30, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Canadohta Lake?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Canadohta Lake 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 181 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Canadohta Lake?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Canadohta Lake sees about 181 frost-free days — roughly Apr 30 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 21 to Oct 14, about 146 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Canadohta Lake?
The federal record around Canadohta Lake shows 98 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (62), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Canadohta Lake?
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 Canadohta Lake's scale — its 6a band and its 181-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Canadohta 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 Canadohta Lake’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Canadohta Lake's own scale — its own ~181-day season between 28°F freezes, the 771 acres it covers and 98 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Canadohta Lake's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Canadohta Lake's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 30 and Oct 28 and the ~181-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 98 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Canadohta Lake, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Canadohta Lake's boundary and the 771 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~181-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Canadohta Lake's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Canadohta Lakelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Canadohta Lake's 771 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Crawford County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Crawford 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 Crawford County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Canadohta Lake's 771 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Canadohta 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 771 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Canadohta Lake-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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