Point Marion, 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 Point Marion, 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 Point Marion lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Point Marion — the short answer
Point Marion, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 259 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- 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
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 259 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 Point Marion's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Point Marion's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Point Marion
Each reading below is measured for Point Marion itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPoint Marion runs about 211 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
MeasuredPoint Marion 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 Point Marion is in
Point Marion sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Point Marion's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Fayette County is mostly Central Appalachians. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Point Marion
Every plant below cleared Point Marion's own zone 6b and its 211-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Point Marion?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (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. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Point Marion
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Point Marion, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Point Marion
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Point Marion. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MASONTOWN REGULATION STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- POINT MARION FORD SVCBrownfields · 800 ft
- POINT MARION FORD SALES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- POINT MARION BORO UTILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- 119 GAS & AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- UNOMART IIUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR STORE NO 7283Brownfields · 1500 ft
- FRIENDSHIP HILL NATL HISTORIC SITEBrownfields · 1700 ft
- HOUZE OF GLASSBrownfields · 1700 ft
- DAVES MOBILUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- FA 66Nitrate · 2100 ft
- CRIMBLY TRUCKING SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Point Marion'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 Point Marion.
Total Sites
656
within ~10 miles of Point Marion
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Point Marion
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Point Marion
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.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Point Marion
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 Point Marion average
Your land is one point inside Point Marion
Everything above resolves to Point Marion as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 259 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 Point Marion Average
Point Marion Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Point Marion
- ●One soil character for all of Point Marion
- ●Frost dates read at Point Marion's scale: Apr 7 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Point Marion's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Point Marion
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Point Marion, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Point Marion — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Point Marion
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 Point Marion’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 Point Marion
When does frost risk typically end in Point Marion?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Point Marion typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Point Marion?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Point Marion 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 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Point Marion?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Point Marion sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 21, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Point Marion?
The federal record around Point Marion is a meaningful one — 656 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (344), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Point Marion?
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 Point Marion's scale — its 6b band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Point Marion'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 Point Marion’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Point Marion's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 259 acres it covers and 656 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Point Marion's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Point Marion's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Nov 4 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 656 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Point Marion, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Point Marion's boundary and the 259 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Point Marion sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Point Marionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Point Marion's 259 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Fayette County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Fayette 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 Fayette County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Point Marion's 259 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Point Marion you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 259 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 Point Marion-wide figureread your own land →
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