Lincolnville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Lincolnville, 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 Lincolnville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lincolnville — the short answer
Lincolnville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 181 days between hard freezes, across 221 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~181
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 221 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 Lincolnville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lincolnville's 181-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lincolnville
Each reading below is measured for Lincolnville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLincolnville runs about 181 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
MeasuredLincolnville 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 Lincolnville is in
Lincolnville sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lincolnville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Crawford County.
What Grows in Lincolnville
Every plant below cleared Lincolnville's own zone 6a and its 181-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lincolnville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — 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 Lincolnville
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Lincolnville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lincolnville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lincolnville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BLOOMFIELD TWP SEW AUTH OFCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BLOOMFIELD TWP STPToxics Release Inventory · 1800 ft
- BLOOMFIELD TWP CRAWFORD CNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- LINCAN FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CW 2413Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- LOMAK FUEL PUMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- LLOYDS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- ATHENS TWP SPVRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- JE ERNST PIPELINE CONSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- FORMERLY TNT ENTERPRISESUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- BALLOG FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- CENTERVILLE VOL FIRE DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lincolnville'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 Lincolnville.
Total Sites
92
within ~10 miles of Lincolnville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
9 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lincolnville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lincolnville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lincolnville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lincolnville — Toxics Release Inventory (9 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (60 sites). 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.
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 Lincolnville
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 Lincolnville average
Your land is one point inside Lincolnville
Everything above resolves to Lincolnville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 221 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 Lincolnville Average
Lincolnville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Lincolnville
- ●One soil character for all of Lincolnville
- ●Frost dates read at Lincolnville's scale: Apr 30 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lincolnville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lincolnville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lincolnville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lincolnville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lincolnville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lincolnville average
How we know this about Lincolnville
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 Lincolnville’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 Lincolnville
When does frost risk typically end in Lincolnville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lincolnville typically lands around Apr 30, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Lincolnville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lincolnville typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 181 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lincolnville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lincolnville sees about 181 frost-free days — roughly Apr 30 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 21 to Oct 14, about 146 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lincolnville?
The federal record around Lincolnville shows 92 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (60), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lincolnville?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lincolnville's scale — its 6a band and its 181-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lincolnville'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 Lincolnville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lincolnville's own scale — its own ~181-day season between 28°F freezes, the 221 acres it covers and 92 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lincolnville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lincolnville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 30 and Oct 28 and the ~181-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 92 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lincolnville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lincolnville's boundary and the 221 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~181-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lincolnville's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lincolnvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lincolnville's 221 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 Lincolnville's 221 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lincolnville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 221 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Lincolnville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across PennsylvaniaLincolnville sits outside our named growing regions, so Pennsylvania as a whole is its closest context here.
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