Loysville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Loysville, 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 Loysville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Loysville — the short answer
Loysville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7a, about 219 days between hard freezes, across 634 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~219
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 634 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 Loysville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Loysville's 219-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Loysville
Each reading below is measured for Loysville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLoysville runs about 219 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
MeasuredLoysville 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 Loysville is in
Loysville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Loysville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Perry County.
What Grows in Loysville
Every plant below cleared Loysville's own zone 7a and its 219-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Loysville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — 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 Loysville
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Loysville, first recorded 2018. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Loysville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Loysville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JOHNSON MOTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- PE 170Nitrate · 2200 ft
- PE 163Nitrate · 2300 ft
- PE 413Nitrate · 2600 ft
- LOYSVILLE YOUTH DEV CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- AEP LOYSVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- JEFFREY SMITHUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- PE 127Nitrate · 0.5 mi
- LOYSVILLE YOUTH DEV CTR-PUMPHOUSE #1Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- PE 64Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- HOOVER LANE FARMCAFO · 0.6 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR STORE NO 11302Brownfields · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Loysville'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 Loysville.
Total Sites
187
within ~10 miles of Loysville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 mining site (prospects, none worked)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Loysville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Loysville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Loysville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Loysville — CAFO (6 sites) and Nitrate (110 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Loysville
Everything above resolves to Loysville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 634 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 Loysville Average
Loysville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Loysville
- ●One soil character for all of Loysville
- ●Frost dates read at Loysville's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Loysville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Loysville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Loysville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Loysville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Loysville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Loysville
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 Loysville’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 Loysville
When does frost risk typically end in Loysville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Loysville typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Loysville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Loysville typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 219 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Loysville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Loysville sees about 219 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 25, about 184 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Loysville?
The federal record around Loysville shows 187 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (110), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Loysville?
From about Oct 9 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 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 Nov 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Loysville's scale — its 7a band and its 219-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Loysville'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 Loysville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Loysville's own scale — its own ~219-day season between 28°F freezes, the 634 acres it covers and 187 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Loysville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Loysville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 8 and the ~219-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 187 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Loysville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Loysville's boundary and the 634 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~219-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Loysville's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Loysvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Loysville's 634 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Perry County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Perry 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 Perry County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Loysville's 634 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Loysville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 634 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 Loysville-wide figureread your own land →
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