Oakmont, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Oakmont, 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 Oakmont lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Oakmont — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Oakmont — the short answer
Oakmont, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- 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
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Oakmont's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Oakmont's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Oakmont
Each reading below is measured for Oakmont itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredOakmont runs about 217 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
MeasuredOakmont 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 Oakmont is in
Oakmont sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Oakmont's own centroid rather than borrowed from Allegheny County.
What Grows in Oakmont
Every plant below cleared Oakmont's own zone 6b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Oakmont?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (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 Oakmont
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Oakmont, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Oakmont
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Oakmont. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OAKMONT BOROBrownfields · 1200 ft
- OAKMONT WATERCRAFTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- DONATO AUTO SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- OAKMONT CTL OFCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- SUNSHINE CLEANERSBrownfields · 1700 ft
- SCHEMPP, JACK PONTIAC INCBrownfields · 1800 ft
- ST ANTHONY SCH FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- CHELSEA BUILDING PRODUCTSBrownfields · 1900 ft
- TOSCO 2634209 76 SVC STABrownfields · 1900 ft
- 507 ALLEGHENY AVE OAKMONTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- ZIGMUND A MILOS BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- KWIK FILL S 171Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Oakmont'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 Oakmont.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Oakmont
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Oakmont
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 Oakmont
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 Oakmont average
Your land is one point inside Oakmont
Everything above resolves to Oakmont as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Oakmont Average
Oakmont Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Oakmont
- ●One soil character for all of Oakmont
- ●Frost dates read at Oakmont's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Oakmont's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Oakmont
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Oakmont, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Oakmont averages can't show:
We read public map data around Oakmont — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Oakmont average
How we know this about Oakmont
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 Oakmont’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 Oakmont
When does frost risk typically end in Oakmont?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Oakmont typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Oakmont?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Oakmont 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 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Oakmont?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Oakmont sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 25, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Oakmont?
The federal record around Oakmont is a meaningful one — 2,325 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,071), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Oakmont?
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 Oakmont's scale — its 6b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Oakmont'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 Oakmont’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Oakmont's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,014 acres it covers and 2,325 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Oakmont's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Oakmont's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 8 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,325 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Oakmont, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Oakmont's boundary and the 1,014 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Oakmont's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Oakmontlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Oakmont's 1,014 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Allegheny County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Allegheny 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 Allegheny County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Oakmont's 1,014 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Oakmont you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,014 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Oakmont-wide figureread your own land →