Conneautville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — 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 Conneautville, 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 Conneautville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Conneautville — the short answer
Conneautville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 191 days between hard freezes, across 712 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~191
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 712 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 Conneautville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Conneautville's 191-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Conneautville
Each reading below is measured for Conneautville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredConneautville runs about 191 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
MeasuredConneautville 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 Conneautville is in
Conneautville sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Conneautville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Crawford County.
What Grows in Conneautville
Every plant below cleared Conneautville's own zone 6a and its 191-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Conneautville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Conneautville
Spotted lanternfly documented 8 miles from Conneautville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Conneautville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Conneautville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SCHMITT SALES SAMUELS MKTUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- JOSEPH ARENDASH CONTRACTINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- ASHLAND BULK CONNEAUTVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- PALMER SNYDER FURNITURE CO.Brownfields · 1000 ft
- CONNEAUTVILLE KEYSTONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- ALLTEL PAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- ROBERT GRAHAM & SONS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- ACE PRODBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- SUMMERHILL TWP BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- CW 3-2Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- GREENE ACRES FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- WALLACE M HYDE JRUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Conneautville'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 Conneautville.
Total Sites
102
within ~10 miles of Conneautville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Conneautville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Conneautville
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Conneautville
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 Conneautville average
Your land is one point inside Conneautville
Everything above resolves to Conneautville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 712 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 Conneautville Average
Conneautville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Conneautville
- ●One soil character for all of Conneautville
- ●Frost dates read at Conneautville's scale: Apr 25 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Conneautville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Conneautville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Conneautville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Conneautville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Conneautville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Conneautville average
How we know this about Conneautville
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 Conneautville’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 Conneautville
When does frost risk typically end in Conneautville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Conneautville typically lands around Apr 25, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Conneautville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Conneautville typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 191 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Conneautville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Conneautville sees about 191 frost-free days — roughly Apr 25 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 16 to Oct 19, about 156 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Conneautville?
The federal record around Conneautville is a meaningful one — 102 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (49), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Conneautville?
From about Oct 3 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 Nov 2 (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 Nov 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Conneautville's scale — its 6a band and its 191-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Conneautville'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 Conneautville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Conneautville's own scale — its own ~191-day season between 28°F freezes, the 712 acres it covers and 102 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Conneautville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Conneautville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 25 and Nov 2 and the ~191-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 102 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Conneautville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Conneautville's boundary and the 712 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~191-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Conneautville's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Conneautvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Conneautville's 712 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 Conneautville's 712 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Conneautville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 712 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Conneautville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across PennsylvaniaConneautville sits outside our named growing regions, so Pennsylvania as a whole is its closest context here.
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