New Eagle, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Eagle, 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 New Eagle lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Eagle — the short answer
New Eagle, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 219 days between hard freezes, across 650 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~219
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 650 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 New Eagle's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Eagle's 219-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Eagle
Each reading below is measured for New Eagle itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Eagle 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
MeasuredNew Eagle 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 New Eagle is in
New Eagle sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Eagle's own centroid rather than borrowed from Washington County.
What Grows in New Eagle
Every plant below cleared New Eagle's own zone 6b and its 219-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Eagle?
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 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around New Eagle
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from New Eagle, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Eagle
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Eagle. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PIT STOP 103Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- FREEPORT TRANSPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- BP OIL 07071Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- 7 ELEVEN 36157Brownfields · 1000 ft
- DAVES EAGLE AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- MAPPTECHBrownfields · 1800 ft
- CONSTANTIN MOTORSBrownfields · 1900 ft
- NEW EAGLE BORO MUNI SEW AUTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- 7 ELEVEN 36157Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- VOLKERS EDDIEBrownfields · 2600 ft
- BEACH CLUB MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- VERMICULITE TOR1Superfund · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Eagle'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 New Eagle.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Eagle
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Eagle
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.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in New Eagle
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 New Eagle average
Your land is one point inside New Eagle
Everything above resolves to New Eagle as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 650 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 New Eagle Average
New Eagle Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across New Eagle
- ●One soil character for all of New Eagle
- ●Frost dates read at New Eagle's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Eagle's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Eagle
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Eagle, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around New Eagle — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Eagle average
How we know this about New Eagle
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 New Eagle’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 New Eagle
When does frost risk typically end in New Eagle?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Eagle typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in New Eagle?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Eagle typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 219 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Eagle?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Eagle sees about 219 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 26, about 184 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Eagle?
The federal record around New Eagle is a meaningful one — 908 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (472), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 New Eagle?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Eagle's scale — its 6b band and its 219-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Eagle'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 New Eagle’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Eagle's own scale — its own ~219-day season between 28°F freezes, the 650 acres it covers and 908 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Eagle's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Eagle's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 9 and the ~219-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 908 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Eagle, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Eagle's boundary and the 650 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~219-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Eagle's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of New Eaglelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Eagle's 650 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Washington County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Washington 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 Washington County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Eagle's 650 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Eagle you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 650 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 New Eagle-wide figureread your own land →
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