New Freeport, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in New Freeport, 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 Freeport 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 Freeport — the short answer
New Freeport, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 169 days between hard freezes, across 364 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~169
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 364 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 New Freeport's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Freeport's 169-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Freeport
Each reading below is measured for New Freeport itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Freeport runs about 169 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
MeasuredNew Freeport 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 New Freeport is in
New Freeport sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Freeport's own centroid rather than borrowed from Greene County.
What Grows in New Freeport
Every plant below cleared New Freeport's own zone 6a and its 169-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Freeport?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 17 — 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 New Freeport
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from New Freeport, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Freeport
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Freeport. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LOG CABIN SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- B & D AUTO REPAIR INCBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- J & K GEN STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- GR 87Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- JORDANS GEN STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- GREENRIDGE OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- ALDENE W TAYLORUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- RYERSON STATION STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- WVDOH - PINE GROVE SUBSTATIONBrownfields · 5.2 mi
- WVDOH - HUNDRED SUBSTATIONBrownfields · 5.2 mi
- HUNDRED HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- CARROLL CUMBERLEDGE PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Freeport'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 Freeport.
Total Sites
79
within ~10 miles of New Freeport
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Freeport
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Freeport
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Freeport, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 22 sites within ~10 miles of New Freeport. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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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 New Freeport
Everything above resolves to New Freeport as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 364 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 Freeport Average
New Freeport Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across New Freeport
- ●One soil character for all of New Freeport
- ●Frost dates read at New Freeport's scale: May 1 to Oct 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Freeport's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Freeport, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Freeport averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Freeport — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Freeport average
How we know this about New Freeport
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 Freeport’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 Freeport
When does frost risk typically end in New Freeport?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Freeport typically lands around May 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in New Freeport?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Freeport typically arrives around Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 3, so the watching starts about Sep 17 — about 169 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Freeport?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Freeport sees about 169 frost-free days — roughly May 1 through Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 22 to Oct 3, about 134 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Freeport?
The federal record around New Freeport shows 79 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (39), 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 New Freeport?
From about Sep 17 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Freeport's scale — its 6a band and its 169-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Freeport'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 Freeport’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Freeport's own scale — its own ~169-day season between 28°F freezes, the 364 acres it covers and 79 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Freeport's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Freeport's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 1 and Oct 17 and the ~169-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 79 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Freeport, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Freeport's boundary and the 364 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~169-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Freeport's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of New Freeportlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Freeport's 364 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Greene County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Greene 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 Greene County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Freeport's 364 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Freeport you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 364 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 New Freeport-wide figureread your own land →
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