Nuremberg, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
On paper, cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Nuremberg, 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 Nuremberg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Nuremberg — the short answer
Nuremberg, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 190 days between hard freezes, across 383 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~190
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 383 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 Nuremberg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Nuremberg's 190-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Nuremberg
Each reading below is measured for Nuremberg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNuremberg runs about 190 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
MeasuredNuremberg 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 Nuremberg is in
Nuremberg sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Nuremberg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Schuylkill County.
What Grows in Nuremberg
Every plant below cleared Nuremberg's own zone 6b and its 190-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Nuremberg?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 23 — 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 Nuremberg
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Nuremberg, first recorded 2018. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Nuremberg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Nuremberg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NUREMBERG ELEM SCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- DD SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- COAL CONTR 1991Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- KAMERZEL FUEL SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- FELEGIE ENTERPRISESBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- BLACK CREEK TWP LUZERNE CNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- YURCHO TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- KUZMISSION SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- VOZAR GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- SHEPPTON MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- VALLEY OF THE LAKES SKI VEHICLE MAINT BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- HAZLETON-HENKELBrownfields · 4.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Nuremberg'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 Nuremberg.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Nuremberg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Nuremberg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Nuremberg, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 39 sites within ~10 miles of Nuremberg. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Nuremberg
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 Nuremberg average
Your land is one point inside Nuremberg
Everything above resolves to Nuremberg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 383 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 Nuremberg Average
Nuremberg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Nuremberg
- ●One soil character for all of Nuremberg
- ●Frost dates read at Nuremberg's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Nuremberg's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Nuremberg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Nuremberg, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Nuremberg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Nuremberg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Nuremberg average
How we know this about Nuremberg
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 Nuremberg’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 Nuremberg
When does frost risk typically end in Nuremberg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Nuremberg typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Nuremberg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Nuremberg typically arrives around Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 9, so the watching starts about Sep 23 — about 190 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Nuremberg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Nuremberg sees about 190 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 9, about 155 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Nuremberg?
The federal record around Nuremberg is a meaningful one — 427 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (243), 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 Nuremberg?
From about Sep 23 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Nuremberg's scale — its 6b band and its 190-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Nuremberg'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 Nuremberg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Nuremberg's own scale — its own ~190-day season between 28°F freezes, the 383 acres it covers and 427 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Nuremberg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Nuremberg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 23 and the ~190-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 427 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Nuremberg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Nuremberg's boundary and the 383 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~190-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Nuremberg's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Nuremberglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Nuremberg's 383 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Schuylkill County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Schuylkill 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 Schuylkill County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Nuremberg's 383 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Nuremberg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 383 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 Nuremberg-wide figureread your own land →
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