Manorville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
These conditions suit cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Manorville, 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 Manorville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Manorville — the short answer
Manorville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 191 days between hard freezes, across 65 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 20
- 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
- ~191
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 65 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 6b is Manorville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Manorville's 191-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Manorville
Each reading below is measured for Manorville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredManorville runs about 191 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
MeasuredManorville sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Manorville is in
Manorville sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Manorville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Armstrong County.
What Grows in Manorville
Every plant below cleared Manorville's own zone 6b and its 191-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Manorville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 Oct 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Manorville
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Manorville, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Manorville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Manorville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MANORVILLE OFC & SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- ARMSTRONG CNTY VOL FIREMAN ASSNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- PA NATL GUARD ARMORY FORD CITYBrownfields · 1200 ft
- AR 112Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- SSPINA GROUPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BP OIL COMPANY 07273Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- B & J TRUCK SLS INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- SCHAEFFER TIRE CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- ELJER INC/FORD CITY PLTToxics Release Inventory · 0.7 mi
- ARM STARR PRODUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HORSE TRADERBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- FUELAND 232 FORD CITY TOBACCO OUTLETUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Manorville'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 Manorville.
Total Sites
257
within ~10 miles of Manorville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Manorville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Manorville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Manorville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Manorville — PFAS (6 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (16 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Manorville
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Manorville
Everything above resolves to Manorville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 65 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 Manorville Average
Manorville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Manorville
- ●One soil character for all of Manorville
- ●Frost dates read at Manorville's scale: Apr 20 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Manorville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Manorville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Manorville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Manorville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Manorville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Manorville average
How we know this about Manorville
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 Manorville’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 Manorville
When does frost risk typically end in Manorville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Manorville 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 Manorville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Manorville 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 191 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Manorville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Manorville sees about 191 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Oct 14, about 156 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Manorville?
The federal record around Manorville is a meaningful one — 257 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (157), 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 Manorville?
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 Manorville's scale — its 6b band and its 191-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Manorville'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 Manorville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Manorville's own scale — its own ~191-day season between 28°F freezes, the 65 acres it covers and 257 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Manorville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Manorville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Oct 28 and the ~191-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 257 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Manorville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Manorville's boundary and the 65 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~191-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Manorville's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Manorvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Manorville's 65 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Armstrong County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Armstrong 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 Armstrong County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Manorville's 65 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Manorville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 65 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 Manorville-wide figureread your own land →
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