Dewart, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Dewart, 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 Dewart lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Dewart — the short answer
Dewart, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Dewart's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Dewart's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Dewart
Each reading below is measured for Dewart itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDewart runs about 211 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
MeasuredDewart 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 Dewart is in
Dewart sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Dewart's own centroid rather than borrowed from Northumberland County.
What Grows in Dewart
Every plant below cleared Dewart's own zone 6b and its 211-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Dewart?
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 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Dewart
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Dewart, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Dewart
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Dewart. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NU 19Nitrate · 2000 ft
- NU TEC TOOLING CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- WERNER HEREFORD FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- WARRIOR RUN MANORUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- HELICOPTER 1Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- WEAVERS SUNSETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- ALLENWOOD EQUIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- ALLENWOOD RENTAL & SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- OMAAA TRUCK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- QUICK SHOP 3Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- MASONITE CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- 7 ELEVEN 40231Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Dewart'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 Dewart.
Total Sites
493
within ~10 miles of Dewart
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Dewart
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Dewart
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Dewart, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Dewart — CAFO (6 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (39 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Dewart
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 Dewart average
Your land is one point inside Dewart
Everything above resolves to Dewart as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Dewart Average
Dewart Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Dewart
- ●One soil character for all of Dewart
- ●Frost dates read at Dewart's scale: Apr 6 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Dewart's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Dewart
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Dewart, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Dewart averages can't show:
We read public map data around Dewart — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Dewart average
How we know this about Dewart
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 Dewart’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 Dewart
When does frost risk typically end in Dewart?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Dewart typically lands around Apr 6, 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 Apr 27.
When is the first frost in Dewart?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Dewart typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Dewart?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Dewart sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 20, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Dewart?
The federal record around Dewart is a meaningful one — 493 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (245), the nearest Nitrate 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 Dewart?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Dewart's scale — its 6b band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Dewart'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 Dewart’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Dewart's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,304 acres it covers and 493 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Dewart's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Dewart's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Nov 3 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 493 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Dewart, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Dewart's boundary and the 1,304 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Dewart's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Dewartlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Dewart's 1,304 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Northumberland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Northumberland 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 Northumberland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Dewart's 1,304 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Dewart you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,304 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 Dewart-wide figureread your own land →
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