Kane, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
These conditions suit cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Kane, 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 Kane 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 Kane — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Kane — the short answer
Kane, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 5b, about 151 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~151
- 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 5b is Kane's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kane's 151-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kane
Each reading below is measured for Kane itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKane runs about 151 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
MeasuredKane sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Kane is in
Kane sits in the North Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Kane's own centroid rather than borrowed from McKean County.
What Grows in Kane
Every plant below cleared Kane's own zone 5b and its 151-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kane?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 8 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Kane
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Kane, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Kane
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kane. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SANDERS BUSINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- MIKE STEWARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- RANDY DEPTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- ROBERT C MAGUEUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- ZUZEK LUMBER COUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- SEMICONDUCTOR SPECIALTIESBrownfields · 750 ft
- DANGELO AUTO BODY & TOWINGBrownfields · 950 ft
- ZOOK MOTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- FUNARI TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- CARL NOVOSEL TIMBERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- KANE WORK LOCATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- COMM HOSPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kane'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 Kane.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kane
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kane
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kane, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Kane — Toxics Release Inventory (8 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (74 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Kane
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 Kane average
Your land is one point inside Kane
Everything above resolves to Kane 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 Kane Average
Kane Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Kane
- ●One soil character for all of Kane
- ●Frost dates read at Kane's scale: May 10 to Oct 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kane's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kane
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kane, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kane averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kane — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kane average
How we know this about Kane
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 Kane’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 Kane
When does frost risk typically end in Kane?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kane typically lands around May 10, 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 31.
When is the first frost in Kane?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kane typically arrives around Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 24, so the watching starts about Sep 8 — about 151 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kane?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kane sees about 151 frost-free days — roughly May 10 through Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 31 to Sep 24, about 116 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kane?
The federal record around Kane is a meaningful one — 115 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (74), 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 Kane?
From about Sep 8 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kane's scale — its 5b band and its 151-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kane'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 Kane’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Kane's own scale — its own ~151-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,002 acres it covers and 115 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kane's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kane's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 10 and Oct 8 and the ~151-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 115 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kane, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kane's boundary and the 1,002 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~151-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kane's own centroid, the North Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Kanelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kane's 1,002 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom McKean County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom McKean 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 McKean County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kane's 1,002 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kane you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,002 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 Kane-wide figureread your own land →