Eyers Grove, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Eyers Grove, 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 Eyers Grove lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Eyers Grove — the short answer
Eyers Grove, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 139 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~192
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 139 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 Eyers Grove's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eyers Grove's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eyers Grove
Each reading below is measured for Eyers Grove itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEyers Grove runs about 192 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
MeasuredEyers Grove 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 Eyers Grove is in
Eyers Grove sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eyers Grove's own centroid rather than borrowed from Columbia County.
What Grows in Eyers Grove
Every plant below cleared Eyers Grove's own zone 6b and its 192-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eyers Grove?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Eyers Grove
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Eyers Grove, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Eyers Grove
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eyers Grove. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LARRY MILLER FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- DENNYS GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- CO 60Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- JERRES BODY SHOPBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- MILLVILLE BORO OFC ABANDONED TANKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- MILLVILLE FOREST PROD INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- MILLVILLE BULK PLTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- CENTRAL PA PETRO LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- SGL 226Underground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- DAILYS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- GREENWOOD BULK PLTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- RYLAND L HOCK EXCAVATINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eyers Grove'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 Eyers Grove.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eyers Grove
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eyers Grove
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eyers Grove, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Eyers Grove — PFAS (4 sites) and CAFO (3 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Eyers Grove
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 Eyers Grove average
Your land is one point inside Eyers Grove
Everything above resolves to Eyers Grove as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 139 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 Eyers Grove Average
Eyers Grove Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Eyers Grove
- ●One soil character for all of Eyers Grove
- ●Frost dates read at Eyers Grove's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eyers Grove's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eyers Grove
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Three things about your lot that Eyers Grove averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eyers Grove — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eyers Grove average
How we know this about Eyers Grove
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 Eyers Grove’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 Eyers Grove
When does frost risk typically end in Eyers Grove?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eyers Grove typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Eyers Grove?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eyers Grove typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 192 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eyers Grove?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eyers Grove sees about 192 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 11, about 157 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eyers Grove?
The federal record around Eyers Grove is a meaningful one — 292 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (157), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 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 Eyers Grove?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eyers Grove's scale — its 6b band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eyers Grove'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 Eyers Grove’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Eyers Grove's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 139 acres it covers and 292 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eyers Grove's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Eyers Grove's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 25 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 292 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eyers Grove, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eyers Grove's boundary and the 139 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~192-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Eyers Grove's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Eyers Grovelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eyers Grove's 139 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Columbia County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Columbia 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 Columbia County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eyers Grove's 139 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eyers Grove you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 139 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 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 Eyers Grove-wide figureread your own land →
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