East Conemaugh, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in East Conemaugh, 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 East Conemaugh lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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East Conemaugh — the short answer
East Conemaugh, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 198 days between hard freezes, across 176 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~198
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 176 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 East Conemaugh's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against East Conemaugh's 198-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in East Conemaugh
Each reading below is measured for East Conemaugh itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEast Conemaugh runs about 198 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
MeasuredEast Conemaugh 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 East Conemaugh is in
East Conemaugh sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at East Conemaugh's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cambria County.
What Grows in East Conemaugh
Every plant below cleared East Conemaugh's own zone 6b and its 198-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in East Conemaugh?
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 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — 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 East Conemaugh
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from East Conemaugh, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near East Conemaugh
Closest first, within ~10 miles of East Conemaugh. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BETH SW BOXUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- WICKS AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- GENERAL COMMODITIES WAREHOUSEBrownfields · 950 ft
- ALPHA PRINTINGBrownfields · 1000 ft
- FRANKLIN OPERATIONSToxics Release Inventory · 2200 ft
- JOHNSTOWN AMERICA CORPToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- JOHNSTOWN TRIBUNE PUB CO WHSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- WALIGORAS AUTO BODYBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- TECUMSEH REDEVELOPMENT INCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- EAST TAYLOR TWP MUNI BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- YANKO BROS TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- CONEMAUGH INCBrownfields · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from East Conemaugh'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 East Conemaugh.
Total Sites
603
within ~10 miles of East Conemaugh
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
24 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of East Conemaugh
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of East Conemaugh
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around East Conemaugh, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 5 sites within ~10 miles of East Conemaugh. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in East Conemaugh
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 East Conemaugh average
Your land is one point inside East Conemaugh
Everything above resolves to East Conemaugh as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 176 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 East Conemaugh Average
East Conemaugh Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across East Conemaugh
- ●One soil character for all of East Conemaugh
- ●Frost dates read at East Conemaugh's scale: Apr 15 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not East Conemaugh's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in East Conemaugh
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in East Conemaugh, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that East Conemaugh averages can't show:
We read public map data around East Conemaugh — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the East Conemaugh average
How we know this about East Conemaugh
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 East Conemaugh’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 East Conemaugh
When does frost risk typically end in East Conemaugh?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in East Conemaugh typically lands around Apr 15, 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 6.
When is the first frost in East Conemaugh?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in East Conemaugh typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 198 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in East Conemaugh?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, East Conemaugh sees about 198 frost-free days — roughly Apr 15 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 6 to Oct 16, about 163 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in East Conemaugh?
The federal record around East Conemaugh is a meaningful one — 603 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (312), 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 East Conemaugh?
From about Sep 30 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at East Conemaugh's scale — its 6b band and its 198-day season. Your yard writes its own version of East Conemaugh'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 East Conemaugh’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at East Conemaugh's own scale — its own ~198-day season between 28°F freezes, the 176 acres it covers and 603 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- East Conemaugh's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- East Conemaugh's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 15 and Oct 30 and the ~198-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 603 documented contamination sites on the federal record near East Conemaugh, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- East Conemaugh's boundary and the 176 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~198-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at East Conemaugh's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of East Conemaughlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so East Conemaugh's 176 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cambria County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cambria 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 Cambria County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among East Conemaugh's 176 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of East Conemaugh you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 176 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 East Conemaugh-wide figureread your own land →