Hydetown, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Hydetown, 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 Hydetown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hydetown — the short answer
Hydetown, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 173 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~173
- 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 6a is Hydetown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hydetown's 173-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hydetown
Each reading below is measured for Hydetown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHydetown runs about 173 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
MeasuredHydetown 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 Hydetown is in
Hydetown sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hydetown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Crawford County.
What Grows in Hydetown
Every plant below cleared Hydetown's own zone 6a and its 173-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hydetown?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 21 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Hydetown
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Hydetown, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hydetown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hydetown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HYDETOWN HANDYMARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- HASBROUCK SAND & GRAVELUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- LOKER FRANCISUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- JONES BROSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- NORTHWEST HARDWOODS TITUSVILLE YARDBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- HOMERWOOD HARDWOOD FLOORING/TITUSVILLEToxics Release Inventory · 1.8 mi
- CUNOVA SERVICE USAToxics Release Inventory · 1.9 mi
- WAL MART SUPERCENTER #5360Brownfields · 1.9 mi
- FRANK T LAMBUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- BETTS BROTHERS COLLISIONBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- OIL CREEK TWP MUNI BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- DAVES SAW SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hydetown'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 Hydetown.
Total Sites
115
within ~10 miles of Hydetown
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hydetown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hydetown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hydetown, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 10 sites within ~10 miles of Hydetown. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Hydetown
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 Hydetown average
Your land is one point inside Hydetown
Everything above resolves to Hydetown 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 Hydetown Average
Hydetown Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Hydetown
- ●One soil character for all of Hydetown
- ●Frost dates read at Hydetown's scale: May 1 to Oct 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hydetown's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hydetown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hydetown, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hydetown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hydetown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hydetown average
How we know this about Hydetown
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 Hydetown’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 Hydetown
When does frost risk typically end in Hydetown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hydetown typically lands around May 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Hydetown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hydetown typically arrives around Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 7, so the watching starts about Sep 21 — about 173 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hydetown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hydetown sees about 173 frost-free days — roughly May 1 through Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 22 to Oct 7, about 138 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hydetown?
The federal record around Hydetown is a meaningful one — 115 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (68), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Hydetown?
From about Sep 21 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hydetown's scale — its 6a band and its 173-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hydetown'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 Hydetown’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hydetown's own scale — its own ~173-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,436 acres it covers and 115 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hydetown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hydetown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 1 and Oct 21 and the ~173-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 115 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hydetown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hydetown's boundary and the 1,436 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~173-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hydetown's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Hydetownlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hydetown's 1,436 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Crawford County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Crawford 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 Crawford County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hydetown's 1,436 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hydetown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,436 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Hydetown-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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