Ringtown, 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 Ringtown, 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 Ringtown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Ringtown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Ringtown — the short answer
Ringtown, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 183 days between hard freezes, across 280 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 21
- 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
- ~183
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 280 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 Ringtown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ringtown's 183-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ringtown
Each reading below is measured for Ringtown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRingtown runs about 183 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
MeasuredRingtown 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 Ringtown is in
Ringtown sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Ringtown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Schuylkill County.
What Grows in Ringtown
Every plant below cleared Ringtown's own zone 6b and its 183-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ringtown?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 21 (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. 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 Ringtown
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Ringtown, first recorded 2018. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Ringtown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ringtown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CAREYVA BROS FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- CONTEMPRI HOMESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- B & S TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- RINGTOWN WILBERT VAULT WORKS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- RINGTOWN ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- JELD WENUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- RINGTOWN MILL & HDWRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- BLOOM HEATINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- RARICK EXCAVUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- VALLEY KWIK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- HART FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- CALN BLDG STONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ringtown'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 Ringtown.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ringtown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ringtown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ringtown, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Ringtown — PFAS (5 sites) and Superfund (6 sites). 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Ringtown
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 Ringtown
Everything above resolves to Ringtown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 280 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 Ringtown Average
Ringtown Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Ringtown
- ●One soil character for all of Ringtown
- ●Frost dates read at Ringtown's scale: Apr 21 to Oct 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ringtown's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Ringtown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Ringtown, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Ringtown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Ringtown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ringtown average
How we know this about Ringtown
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 Ringtown’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 Ringtown
When does frost risk typically end in Ringtown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ringtown typically lands around Apr 21, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Ringtown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ringtown 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 183 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ringtown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ringtown sees about 183 frost-free days — roughly Apr 21 through Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 12 to Oct 7, about 148 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ringtown?
The federal record around Ringtown is a meaningful one — 236 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (145), 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 Ringtown?
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 Ringtown's scale — its 6b band and its 183-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ringtown'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 Ringtown’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Ringtown's own scale — its own ~183-day season between 28°F freezes, the 280 acres it covers and 236 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ringtown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Ringtown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 21 and Oct 21 and the ~183-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 236 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ringtown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ringtown's boundary and the 280 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~183-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ringtown's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Ringtownlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Ringtown's 280 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 Ringtown's 280 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ringtown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 280 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 Ringtown-wide figureread your own land →
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