Linesville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Linesville, 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 Linesville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Linesville — the short answer
Linesville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 198 days between hard freezes, across 495 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~198
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 495 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 Linesville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Linesville's 198-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Linesville
Each reading below is measured for Linesville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLinesville runs about 198 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
MeasuredLinesville 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 Linesville is in
Linesville sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Linesville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Crawford County.
What Grows in Linesville
Every plant below cleared Linesville's own zone 6a and its 198-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Linesville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — 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 Linesville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Linesville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Linesville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Linesville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HANKS PENNZOILUnderground Storage Tanks · 100 ft
- TEL O POST COUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- WARREN BUS LINESUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- COUNTRY FAIR 45 GRSBrownfields · 550 ft
- COUNTRY FAIR 45Underground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- ALLTEL PAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- CW 1594-1Nitrate · 1500 ft
- LAST MINIT MART LINESVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR SVC CARSBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- MOLDED FIBER GLASS TRAY COToxics Release Inventory · 0.8 mi
- MOLDED FIBER GLASS TRAY COBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- UTILITY CONSTRUCTORS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Linesville'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 Linesville.
Total Sites
135
within ~10 miles of Linesville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Linesville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Linesville
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
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Your land is one point inside Linesville
Everything above resolves to Linesville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 495 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 Linesville Average
Linesville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Linesville
- ●One soil character for all of Linesville
- ●Frost dates read at Linesville's scale: Apr 20 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Linesville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Linesville
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We read public map data around Linesville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Linesville
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 Linesville’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 Linesville
When does frost risk typically end in Linesville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Linesville typically lands around Apr 20, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Linesville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Linesville typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 198 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Linesville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Linesville sees about 198 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Oct 21, about 163 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Linesville?
The federal record around Linesville is a meaningful one — 135 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (73), 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 Linesville?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Linesville's scale — its 6a band and its 198-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Linesville'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 Linesville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Linesville's own scale — its own ~198-day season between 28°F freezes, the 495 acres it covers and 135 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Linesville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Linesville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Nov 4 and the ~198-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 135 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Linesville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Linesville's boundary and the 495 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~198-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Linesville's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Linesvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Linesville's 495 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 Linesville's 495 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Linesville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 495 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 Linesville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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