Oreminea, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Oreminea, 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 Oreminea lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Oreminea — the short answer
Oreminea, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 210 days between hard freezes, across 231 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~210
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 231 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 Oreminea's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Oreminea's 210-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Oreminea
Each reading below is measured for Oreminea itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredOreminea runs about 210 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
MeasuredOreminea 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 Oreminea is in
Oreminea sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Oreminea's own centroid rather than borrowed from Blair County.
What Grows in Oreminea
Every plant below cleared Oreminea's own zone 6b and its 210-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Oreminea?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Oreminea
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Oreminea, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Oreminea
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Oreminea. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BA 407Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- FISHERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- BA 362Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- BA 479Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- WILLIAMSBURG GENERATING STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- FONDA GROUPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- BA 390Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- BA 402Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- BA 636Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- BA 635Nitrate · 4.2 mi
- WASON CAFOCAFO · 4.3 mi
- BA 465Nitrate · 4.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Oreminea'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 Oreminea.
Total Sites
414
within ~10 miles of Oreminea
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Oreminea
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Oreminea
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Oreminea, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 6 sites within ~10 miles of Oreminea. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Oreminea
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 Oreminea
Everything above resolves to Oreminea as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 231 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 Oreminea Average
Oreminea Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Oreminea
- ●One soil character for all of Oreminea
- ●Frost dates read at Oreminea's scale: Apr 8 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Oreminea's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Oreminea
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Oreminea, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Oreminea averages can't show:
We read public map data around Oreminea — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Oreminea average
How we know this about Oreminea
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 Oreminea’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 Oreminea
When does frost risk typically end in Oreminea?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Oreminea typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Oreminea?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Oreminea typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 210 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Oreminea?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Oreminea sees about 210 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 21, about 175 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Oreminea?
The federal record around Oreminea is a meaningful one — 414 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (187), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Oreminea?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Oreminea's scale — its 6b band and its 210-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Oreminea'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 Oreminea’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Oreminea's own scale — its own ~210-day season between 28°F freezes, the 231 acres it covers and 414 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Oreminea's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Oreminea's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Nov 4 and the ~210-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 414 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Oreminea, the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Oreminea's boundary and the 231 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~210-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Oreminea's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Oreminealydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Oreminea's 231 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Blair County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Blair 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 Blair County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Oreminea's 231 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Oreminea you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 231 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Oreminea-wide figureread your own land →
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