Landisville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Landisville, 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 Landisville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Landisville — the short answer
Landisville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7a, about 227 days between hard freezes, across 817 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~227
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 817 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 7a is Landisville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Landisville's 227-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Landisville
Each reading below is measured for Landisville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLandisville runs about 227 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
MeasuredLandisville sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Landisville is in
Landisville sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Landisville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lancaster County.
What Grows in Landisville
Every plant below cleared Landisville's own zone 7a and its 227-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Landisville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Landisville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Landisville, first recorded 2017. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Landisville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Landisville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HEMPFIELD HIGH SCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- ROCCO FRANK M DDSBrownfields · 1700 ft
- LANDISVILLE ESS BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- HERR & SACCO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- SUNOCO 0364 1453Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- EAST HEMPFIELD TWP LANCASTER CNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- IVY CREEK CUSTOM CABINETRY INCBrownfields · 2300 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #2053Brownfields · 2300 ft
- TURKEY HILL MINIT MKT 35Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- LN 514 LANCASTER COUNTY OBS WELLNitrate · 0.5 mi
- HEMPFIELD COMM AMBULUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ALFRED J COOKEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Landisville'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 Landisville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Landisville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Landisville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Landisville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Landisville — CAFO (74 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (143 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Landisville
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 Landisville average
Your land is one point inside Landisville
Everything above resolves to Landisville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 817 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 Landisville Average
Landisville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Landisville
- ●One soil character for all of Landisville
- ●Frost dates read at Landisville's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Landisville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Landisville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Landisville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Landisville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Landisville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Landisville average
How we know this about Landisville
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 Landisville’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 Landisville
When does frost risk typically end in Landisville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Landisville typically lands around Mar 29, 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 Apr 19.
When is the first frost in Landisville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Landisville typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 227 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Landisville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Landisville sees about 227 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 28, about 192 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Landisville?
The federal record around Landisville runs heavier than most — 1,895 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (964), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Landisville?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Landisville's scale — its 7a band and its 227-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Landisville'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 Landisville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Landisville's own scale — its own ~227-day season between 28°F freezes, the 817 acres it covers and 1,895 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Landisville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Landisville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 11 and the ~227-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,895 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Landisville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Landisville's boundary and the 817 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~227-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Landisville's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Landisvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Landisville's 817 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lancaster County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lancaster 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 Lancaster County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Landisville's 817 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Landisville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 817 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Landisville-wide figureread your own land →