Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Lawrence Park, 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 Lawrence Park 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 Lawrence Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lawrence Park — the short answer
Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7a, about 227 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~227
- 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 7a is Lawrence Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lawrence Park's 227-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lawrence Park
Each reading below is measured for Lawrence Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLawrence Park 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
MeasuredLawrence Park 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 Lawrence Park is in
Lawrence Park sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lawrence Park's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Erie County is mostly Erie Drift Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Lawrence Park
Every plant below cleared Lawrence Park'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 Lawrence Park?
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 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 22 — 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 Lawrence Park
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Lawrence Park, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lawrence Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lawrence Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- EAST ERIE COMMERCIAL RRUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- GE TRANSPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- GE TRANSPORTATION/ERIE PLTToxics Release Inventory · 2400 ft
- GE TRANSPORTATION/ERIE PLTBrownfields · 2400 ft
- BEUTE & BLILEYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- LAWRENCE PARK ELEMUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- GLENNS TRANSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ERIE GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ERIE GASBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- JOSEPH MCCORMICK CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- VILLA MARIA ACADBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- WABASH RAILWAY COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lawrence Park'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 Lawrence Park.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lawrence Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lawrence Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lawrence Park, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 90 sites within ~10 miles of Lawrence Park. 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 Lawrence Park
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 Lawrence Park average
Your land is one point inside Lawrence Park
Everything above resolves to Lawrence Park 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 Lawrence Park Average
Lawrence Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Lawrence Park
- ●One soil character for all of Lawrence Park
- ●Frost dates read at Lawrence Park's scale: Apr 9 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lawrence Park's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lawrence Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lawrence Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lawrence Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lawrence Park average
How we know this about Lawrence Park
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 Lawrence Park’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 Lawrence Park
When does frost risk typically end in Lawrence Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lawrence Park typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Lawrence Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lawrence Park typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 227 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lawrence Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lawrence Park sees about 227 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Nov 8, about 192 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lawrence Park?
The federal record around Lawrence Park is a meaningful one — 991 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (427), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lawrence Park?
From about Oct 23 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lawrence Park's scale — its 7a band and its 227-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lawrence Park'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 Lawrence Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lawrence Park's own scale — its own ~227-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,176 acres it covers and 991 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lawrence Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lawrence Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Nov 22 and the ~227-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 991 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lawrence Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lawrence Park's boundary and the 1,176 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~227-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lawrence Park sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lawrence Parklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lawrence Park's 1,176 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Erie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Erie 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 Erie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lawrence Park's 1,176 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lawrence Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,176 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lawrence Park-wide figureread your own land →