Orangeville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Orangeville, 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 Orangeville 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 Orangeville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Orangeville — the short answer
Orangeville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 197 days between hard freezes, across 285 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~197
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 285 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 Orangeville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Orangeville's 197-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Orangeville
Each reading below is measured for Orangeville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredOrangeville runs about 197 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
MeasuredOrangeville 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 Orangeville is in
Orangeville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Orangeville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Columbia County.
What Grows in Orangeville
Every plant below cleared Orangeville's own zone 6b and its 197-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Orangeville?
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 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Orangeville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Orangeville, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Orangeville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Orangeville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RUCKLES SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- HESS MKT & RESTAURANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- FOSTER D WEAVERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- CLYDE BARTHOLOMEW JRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CO 379Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- FISHING CREEK TRANSPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- PPL BLOOMSBURG SVC CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- JUDYS GAS & GROCERIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- DAN & DIAN COFFINUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- ORANGE TWP COLUMBIA CNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE LINE CO LLC (STA 610)Brownfields · 2.6 mi
- QUICK SHOP 1Underground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Orangeville'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 Orangeville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Orangeville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Orangeville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Orangeville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 218 sites within ~10 miles of Orangeville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Orangeville
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 Orangeville average
Your land is one point inside Orangeville
Everything above resolves to Orangeville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 285 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 Orangeville Average
Orangeville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Orangeville
- ●One soil character for all of Orangeville
- ●Frost dates read at Orangeville's scale: Apr 12 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Orangeville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Orangeville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Orangeville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Orangeville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Orangeville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Orangeville average
How we know this about Orangeville
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 Orangeville’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 Orangeville
When does frost risk typically end in Orangeville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Orangeville typically lands around Apr 12, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Orangeville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Orangeville typically arrives around Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 12, so the watching starts about Sep 26 — about 197 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Orangeville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Orangeville sees about 197 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 12, about 162 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Orangeville?
The federal record around Orangeville is a meaningful one — 351 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (218), 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 Orangeville?
From about Sep 26 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Orangeville's scale — its 6b band and its 197-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Orangeville'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 Orangeville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Orangeville's own scale — its own ~197-day season between 28°F freezes, the 285 acres it covers and 351 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Orangeville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Orangeville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Oct 26 and the ~197-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 351 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Orangeville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Orangeville's boundary and the 285 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~197-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Orangeville's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Orangevillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Orangeville's 285 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Columbia County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Columbia 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 Columbia County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Orangeville's 285 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Orangeville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 285 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 Orangeville-wide figureread your own land →
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