Ramey, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Ramey, 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 Ramey lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Ramey — the short answer
Ramey, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 175 days between hard freezes, across 594 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~175
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 594 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 Ramey's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ramey's 175-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ramey
Each reading below is measured for Ramey itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRamey runs about 175 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
MeasuredRamey 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 Ramey is in
Ramey sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Ramey's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clearfield County.
What Grows in Ramey
Every plant below cleared Ramey's own zone 6a and its 175-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ramey?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 21 — 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 Ramey
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Ramey, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Ramey
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ramey. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RD JONES COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- JOHN H KUHN TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- CF 14Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- SYS SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- BRINK TRANSPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- PHILIP E KITKOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- HAMATYS SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- ZUBECK CHEVROLET CADILLACUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- MANSUN NORTH INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- ZULICH CHEVROLETUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- KEITHS AUTO BODYBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR STORE NO 5890Brownfields · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ramey'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 Ramey.
Total Sites
137
within ~10 miles of Ramey
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ramey
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ramey
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ramey, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 46 sites within ~10 miles of Ramey. 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 Ramey
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 Ramey
Everything above resolves to Ramey as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 594 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 Ramey Average
Ramey Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Ramey
- ●One soil character for all of Ramey
- ●Frost dates read at Ramey's scale: Apr 29 to Oct 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ramey's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Ramey
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Ramey, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Ramey averages can't show:
We read public map data around Ramey — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ramey average
How we know this about Ramey
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 Ramey’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 Ramey
When does frost risk typically end in Ramey?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ramey typically lands around Apr 29, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Ramey?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ramey typically arrives around Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 7, so the watching starts about Sep 21 — about 175 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ramey?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ramey sees about 175 frost-free days — roughly Apr 29 through Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 20 to Oct 7, about 140 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ramey?
The federal record around Ramey shows 137 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (78), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles 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 Ramey?
From about Sep 21 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ramey's scale — its 6a band and its 175-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ramey'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 Ramey’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Ramey's own scale — its own ~175-day season between 28°F freezes, the 594 acres it covers and 137 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ramey's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Ramey's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 29 and Oct 21 and the ~175-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 137 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ramey, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ramey's boundary and the 594 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~175-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ramey's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Rameylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Ramey's 594 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clearfield County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clearfield 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 Clearfield County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Ramey's 594 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ramey you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 594 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Ramey-wide figureread your own land →
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