Dorneyville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Dorneyville, 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 Dorneyville 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 Dorneyville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Dorneyville — the short answer
Dorneyville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7a, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- 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 7a is Dorneyville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Dorneyville's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Dorneyville
Each reading below is measured for Dorneyville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDorneyville runs about 217 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
MeasuredDorneyville sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Dorneyville is in
Dorneyville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Dorneyville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lehigh County.
What Grows in Dorneyville
Every plant below cleared Dorneyville's own zone 7a and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Dorneyville?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Dorneyville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Dorneyville, first recorded 2015. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Dorneyville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Dorneyville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KUSS BROSUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- ST THOMAS MORE SCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- BLUEBIRD CLEANERSBrownfields · 1600 ft
- LE 805Nitrate · 1700 ft
- CEDAR CREST TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- LE 620Nitrate · 1800 ft
- WAWA FOOD MKT 8078Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- EASTERN IND ALLENTOWN REDI MIXUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- TOP STAR 3Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOC OF ALLENTOWNBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- CERTIFIED DERMATOLOGY OF PABrownfields · 0.7 mi
- LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Dorneyville'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 Dorneyville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Dorneyville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Dorneyville
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 Dorneyville
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 Dorneyville average
Your land is one point inside Dorneyville
Everything above resolves to Dorneyville 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 Dorneyville Average
Dorneyville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Dorneyville
- ●One soil character for all of Dorneyville
- ●Frost dates read at Dorneyville's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Dorneyville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Dorneyville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Dorneyville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Dorneyville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Dorneyville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Dorneyville average
How we know this about Dorneyville
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 Dorneyville’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 Dorneyville
When does frost risk typically end in Dorneyville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Dorneyville typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Dorneyville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Dorneyville typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Dorneyville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Dorneyville sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 23, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Dorneyville?
The federal record around Dorneyville runs heavier than most — 2,094 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,050), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Dorneyville?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Dorneyville's scale — its 7a band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Dorneyville'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 Dorneyville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Dorneyville's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,387 acres it covers and 2,094 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Dorneyville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Dorneyville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 6 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,094 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Dorneyville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Dorneyville's boundary and the 1,387 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Dorneyville's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Dorneyvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Dorneyville's 1,387 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lehigh County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lehigh 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 Lehigh County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Dorneyville's 1,387 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Dorneyville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,387 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 Dorneyville-wide figureread your own land →