Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Reynoldsville, 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 Reynoldsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Reynoldsville — the short answer
Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 180 days between hard freezes, across 888 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~180
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 888 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 Reynoldsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Reynoldsville's 180-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Reynoldsville
Each reading below is measured for Reynoldsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredReynoldsville runs about 180 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
MeasuredReynoldsville 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 Reynoldsville is in
Reynoldsville sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Reynoldsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jefferson County.
What Grows in Reynoldsville
Every plant below cleared Reynoldsville's own zone 6a and its 180-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Reynoldsville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 23 — 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 Reynoldsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Reynoldsville, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Reynoldsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Reynoldsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PA0326 REYNOLDSVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 100 ft
- REYNOLDSVILLE SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- SHEETZ 50Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- DENNISOW BROSBrownfields · 900 ft
- DENNISON BROSUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- REYNOLDSVILLE BORO MUNI BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- SHORTWAY SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- GORDON HIDE & TALLOW COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- WINSLOW TWP JEFFERSON CNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- YOHE TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- SPRAGUES SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- DUBOIS FSS FLITE SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Reynoldsville'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 Reynoldsville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Reynoldsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Reynoldsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Reynoldsville, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 3 sites within ~10 miles of Reynoldsville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Reynoldsville
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 Reynoldsville
Everything above resolves to Reynoldsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 888 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 Reynoldsville Average
Reynoldsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Reynoldsville
- ●One soil character for all of Reynoldsville
- ●Frost dates read at Reynoldsville's scale: Apr 26 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Reynoldsville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Reynoldsville
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We read public map data around Reynoldsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Reynoldsville
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 Reynoldsville’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 Reynoldsville
When does frost risk typically end in Reynoldsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Reynoldsville typically lands around Apr 26, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Reynoldsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Reynoldsville typically arrives around Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 9, so the watching starts about Sep 23 — about 180 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Reynoldsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Reynoldsville sees about 180 frost-free days — roughly Apr 26 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 17 to Oct 9, about 145 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Reynoldsville?
The federal record around Reynoldsville is a meaningful one — 311 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (129), 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 Reynoldsville?
From about Sep 23 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Reynoldsville's scale — its 6a band and its 180-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Reynoldsville'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 Reynoldsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Reynoldsville's own scale — its own ~180-day season between 28°F freezes, the 888 acres it covers and 311 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Reynoldsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Reynoldsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 26 and Oct 23 and the ~180-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 311 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Reynoldsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Reynoldsville's boundary and the 888 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~180-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Reynoldsville's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Reynoldsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Reynoldsville's 888 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jefferson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jefferson 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 Jefferson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Reynoldsville's 888 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Reynoldsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 888 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 Reynoldsville-wide figureread your own land →
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