Pocono Woodland Lakes, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pocono Woodland Lakes, 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 Pocono Woodland Lakes lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pocono Woodland Lakes — the short answer
Pocono Woodland Lakes, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 4K 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 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~192
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 Pocono Woodland Lakes's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pocono Woodland Lakes's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pocono Woodland Lakes
Each reading below is measured for Pocono Woodland Lakes itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPocono Woodland Lakes runs about 192 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
MeasuredPocono Woodland Lakes 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 Pocono Woodland Lakes is in
Pocono Woodland Lakes sits in the North Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Pocono Woodland Lakes's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pike County.
What Grows in Pocono Woodland Lakes
Every plant below cleared Pocono Woodland Lakes's own zone 6b and its 192-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pocono Woodland Lakes?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Pocono Woodland Lakes
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Pocono Woodland Lakes, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pocono Woodland Lakes
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pocono Woodland Lakes. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PI 604Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- PI 524Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- ADVANCED OIL RECOVERYBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- S & M WASTE OIL INCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- PI 610Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- NJ FEDERATION OF YMHA YWHA CAMPSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- CONTEL PA QS LOG TAVERNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- HIGH POINT MATERIALSToxics Release Inventory · 2.2 mi
- 522 PROPERTIESBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- PI 638Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- MILFORD QUARRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- PI 608Nitrate · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pocono Woodland Lakes'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 Pocono Woodland Lakes.
Total Sites
303
within ~10 miles of Pocono Woodland Lakes
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pocono Woodland Lakes
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pocono Woodland Lakes
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pocono Woodland Lakes, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 178 sites within ~10 miles of Pocono Woodland Lakes. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Pocono Woodland Lakes
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 Pocono Woodland Lakes average
Your land is one point inside Pocono Woodland Lakes
Everything above resolves to Pocono Woodland Lakes as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Pocono Woodland Lakes Average
Pocono Woodland Lakes Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Pocono Woodland Lakes
- ●One soil character for all of Pocono Woodland Lakes
- ●Frost dates read at Pocono Woodland Lakes's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pocono Woodland Lakes's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pocono Woodland Lakes
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pocono Woodland Lakes, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pocono Woodland Lakes averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pocono Woodland Lakes — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pocono Woodland Lakes average
How we know this about Pocono Woodland Lakes
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 Pocono Woodland Lakes’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 Pocono Woodland Lakes
When does frost risk typically end in Pocono Woodland Lakes?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pocono Woodland Lakes 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 Pocono Woodland Lakes?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pocono Woodland Lakes typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 192 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pocono Woodland Lakes?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pocono Woodland Lakes sees about 192 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 11, about 157 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pocono Woodland Lakes?
The federal record around Pocono Woodland Lakes is a meaningful one — 303 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (178), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.7 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 Pocono Woodland Lakes?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pocono Woodland Lakes's scale — its 6b band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pocono Woodland Lakes'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 Pocono Woodland Lakes’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pocono Woodland Lakes's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,992 acres it covers and 303 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pocono Woodland Lakes's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pocono Woodland Lakes's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 25 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 303 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pocono Woodland Lakes, the closest Nitrate record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pocono Woodland Lakes's boundary and the 3,992 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~192-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pocono Woodland Lakes's own centroid, the North Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Pocono Woodland Lakeslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pocono Woodland Lakes's 3,992 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pike County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pike 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 Pike County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pocono Woodland Lakes's 3,992 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pocono Woodland Lakes you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,992 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.7 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 Pocono Woodland Lakes-wide figureread your own land →