Robeson Extension, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Growers here do well with cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Robeson Extension, 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 Robeson Extension lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Robeson Extension — the short answer
Robeson Extension, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7a, about 207 days between hard freezes, across 111 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~207
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 111 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 7a is Robeson Extension's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Robeson Extension's 207-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Robeson Extension
Each reading below is measured for Robeson Extension itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRobeson Extension runs about 207 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
MeasuredRobeson Extension sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Robeson Extension is in
Robeson Extension sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Robeson Extension's own centroid rather than borrowed from Blair County.
What Grows in Robeson Extension
Every plant below cleared Robeson Extension's own zone 7a and its 207-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Robeson Extension?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — 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 Robeson Extension
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Robeson Extension, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Robeson Extension
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Robeson Extension. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CATHARINE TOWNSHIP COAL ASHSuperfund · 550 ft
- BAKER COAL ASHSuperfund · 600 ft
- MARTIN MINIT MART WILLIAMSBURGBrownfields · 950 ft
- MARTIN GEN STORE 209Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- AKES SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- SHOCKS PENNZOIL STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- ROSCOES AUTO & CYCLE MECHUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- WILLIAMSBURG BORO PROPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- WESTVACO CORP, ENVELOPE DIVBrownfields · 2200 ft
- WESTVACO CORP, ENVELOPE DIVToxics Release Inventory · 2200 ft
- LONGENECKERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- WILLIAMSBURG BOROUGH COAL ASHSuperfund · 2300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Robeson Extension'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 Robeson Extension.
Total Sites
230
within ~10 miles of Robeson Extension
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Robeson Extension
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Robeson Extension
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Robeson Extension, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Robeson Extension — CAFO (4 sites) and Nitrate (76 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Robeson Extension
Everything above resolves to Robeson Extension as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 111 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 Robeson Extension Average
Robeson Extension Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Robeson Extension
- ●One soil character for all of Robeson Extension
- ●Frost dates read at Robeson Extension's scale: Apr 9 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Robeson Extension's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Robeson Extension
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Robeson Extension, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Robeson Extension averages can't show:
We read public map data around Robeson Extension — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Robeson Extension average
How we know this about Robeson Extension
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 Robeson Extension’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 Robeson Extension
When does frost risk typically end in Robeson Extension?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Robeson Extension typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Robeson Extension?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Robeson Extension typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 207 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Robeson Extension?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Robeson Extension sees about 207 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 19, about 172 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Robeson Extension?
The federal record around Robeson Extension is a meaningful one — 230 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (87), the nearest Superfund record about 0.1 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 Robeson Extension?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Robeson Extension's scale — its 7a band and its 207-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Robeson Extension'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 Robeson Extension’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Robeson Extension's own scale — its own ~207-day season between 28°F freezes, the 111 acres it covers and 230 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Robeson Extension's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Robeson Extension's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Nov 2 and the ~207-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 230 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Robeson Extension, the closest Superfund record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Robeson Extension's boundary and the 111 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~207-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Robeson Extension's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Robeson Extensionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Robeson Extension's 111 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Blair County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Blair 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 Blair County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Robeson Extension's 111 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Robeson Extension you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 111 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund record about 0.1 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 Robeson Extension-wide figureread your own land →
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