Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Gallitzin, 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 Gallitzin 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 Gallitzin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Gallitzin — the short answer
Gallitzin, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 203 days between hard freezes, across 457 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- 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
- ~203
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 457 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 Gallitzin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Gallitzin's 203-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Gallitzin
Each reading below is measured for Gallitzin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGallitzin runs about 203 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
MeasuredGallitzin 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 Gallitzin is in
Gallitzin sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Gallitzin's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cambria County.
What Grows in Gallitzin
Every plant below cleared Gallitzin's own zone 6a and its 203-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Gallitzin?
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 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (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. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Gallitzin
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Gallitzin, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Gallitzin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Gallitzin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GALLITZIN MARTIN GEN STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #11408Brownfields · 650 ft
- EAGLEWEARUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- GALLITZIN BORO WWTPUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- DEGOL BROS LUMBERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- SHEETZ INC 37Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- GALLITIZIN AUTO SALESUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- KOS BODY SHOPBrownfields · 2100 ft
- WILKINSON BUS LINESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- J LOKToxics Release Inventory · 1.4 mi
- J LOKBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- ALLEGHENY PORTAGE RR NHSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Gallitzin'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 Gallitzin.
Total Sites
591
within ~10 miles of Gallitzin
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Gallitzin
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Gallitzin
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 Gallitzin
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Your land is one point inside Gallitzin
Everything above resolves to Gallitzin as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 457 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 Gallitzin Average
Gallitzin Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Gallitzin
- ●One soil character for all of Gallitzin
- ●Frost dates read at Gallitzin's scale: Apr 13 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Gallitzin's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Gallitzin
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Gallitzin averages can't show:
We read public map data around Gallitzin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Gallitzin average
How we know this about Gallitzin
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 Gallitzin’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 Gallitzin
When does frost risk typically end in Gallitzin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Gallitzin typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Gallitzin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Gallitzin 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 203 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Gallitzin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Gallitzin sees about 203 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 19, about 168 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Gallitzin?
The federal record around Gallitzin is a meaningful one — 591 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (343), 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 Gallitzin?
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 Gallitzin's scale — its 6a band and its 203-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Gallitzin'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 Gallitzin’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Gallitzin's own scale — its own ~203-day season between 28°F freezes, the 457 acres it covers and 591 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Gallitzin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Gallitzin's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Nov 2 and the ~203-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 591 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Gallitzin, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Gallitzin's boundary and the 457 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~203-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Gallitzin's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Gallitzinlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Gallitzin's 457 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 Gallitzin's 457 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Gallitzin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 457 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 Gallitzin-wide figureread your own land →