Plumville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Plumville, 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 Plumville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Plumville — the short answer
Plumville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 189 days between hard freezes, across 317 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~189
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 317 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 Plumville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Plumville's 189-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Plumville
Each reading below is measured for Plumville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPlumville runs about 189 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
MeasuredPlumville 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 Plumville is in
Plumville sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Plumville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Indiana County.
What Grows in Plumville
Every plant below cleared Plumville's own zone 6a and its 189-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Plumville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — 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 Plumville
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Plumville, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Plumville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Plumville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PLUMVILLE DRY CLNRUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- NELSONS MINI MART OF PLUMVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- DALESSIO FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- WOOD PONTIAC CHEVROLET INCBrownfields · 1200 ft
- CITIZENS AMBUL SVC STA 30Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- SENEX EXPLOSIVESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- SENEX EXPLOSIVES 772 WELLS RDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- IN 913Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- IN 230Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- IN 233Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- IN 231Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- IN 232Nitrate · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Plumville'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 Plumville.
Total Sites
182
within ~10 miles of Plumville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Plumville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Plumville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Plumville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 86 sites within ~10 miles of Plumville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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).
Check your specific parcel in Plumville
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 Plumville average
Your land is one point inside Plumville
Everything above resolves to Plumville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 317 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 Plumville Average
Plumville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Plumville
- ●One soil character for all of Plumville
- ●Frost dates read at Plumville's scale: Apr 22 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Plumville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Plumville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Plumville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Plumville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Plumville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Plumville average
How we know this about Plumville
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 Plumville’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 Plumville
When does frost risk typically end in Plumville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Plumville typically lands around Apr 22, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Plumville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Plumville typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 189 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Plumville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Plumville sees about 189 frost-free days — roughly Apr 22 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 13 to Oct 14, about 154 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Plumville?
The federal record around Plumville shows 182 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (86), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Plumville?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Plumville's scale — its 6a band and its 189-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Plumville'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 Plumville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Plumville's own scale — its own ~189-day season between 28°F freezes, the 317 acres it covers and 182 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Plumville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Plumville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 22 and Oct 28 and the ~189-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 182 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Plumville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Plumville's boundary and the 317 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~189-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Plumville's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Plumvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Plumville's 317 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Indiana County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Indiana 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 Indiana County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Plumville's 317 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Plumville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 317 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Plumville-wide figureread your own land →
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