Renningers, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Renningers, 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 Renningers lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Renningers — the short answer
Renningers, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 746 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 746 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 Renningers's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Renningers's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Renningers
Each reading below is measured for Renningers itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRenningers runs about 201 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
MeasuredRenningers 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 Renningers is in
Renningers sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Renningers's own centroid rather than borrowed from Schuylkill County.
What Grows in Renningers
Every plant below cleared Renningers's own zone 6b and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Renningers?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Renningers
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Renningers, first recorded 2018. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Renningers
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Renningers. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ECONOMY GAS FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- HECLA MACH & EQUIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- MARK E YODER INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- FEGLEY MOBIL STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- AKSHARDIP CORP HESS STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- DON FEGLEY SOUTH LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- BLUE MTN MACK DISTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- FRIEDEN MANOR MHPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SCHUYLKILL CNTY MAINT BLDG 0560Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- LEHIGH VALLEY DAIRIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- LEHIGH VALLEY DAIRIESToxics Release Inventory · 0.8 mi
- LEHIGH VALLEY DAIRIESBrownfields · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Renningers'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 Renningers.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Renningers
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Renningers
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Renningers, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 8 sites within ~10 miles of Renningers. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Renningers
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 Renningers
Everything above resolves to Renningers as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 746 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 Renningers Average
Renningers Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Renningers
- ●One soil character for all of Renningers
- ●Frost dates read at Renningers's scale: Apr 11 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Renningers's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Renningers
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We read public map data around Renningers — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Renningers average
How we know this about Renningers
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 Renningers’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 Renningers
When does frost risk typically end in Renningers?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Renningers typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Renningers?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Renningers typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Renningers?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Renningers sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 15, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Renningers?
The federal record around Renningers is a meaningful one — 473 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (262), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Renningers?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Renningers's scale — its 6b band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Renningers'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 Renningers’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Renningers's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 746 acres it covers and 473 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Renningers's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Renningers's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Oct 29 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 473 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Renningers, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Renningers's boundary and the 746 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Renningers's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Renningerslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Renningers's 746 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Schuylkill County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Schuylkill 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 Schuylkill County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Renningers's 746 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Renningers you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 746 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Renningers-wide figureread your own land →
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