Rogersville, 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.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Rogersville, 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 Rogersville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Rogersville — the short answer
Rogersville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 186 days between hard freezes, across 248 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~186
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 248 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 Rogersville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rogersville's 186-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rogersville
Each reading below is measured for Rogersville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRogersville runs about 186 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
MeasuredRogersville 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 Rogersville is in
Rogersville sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Rogersville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Greene County.
What Grows in Rogersville
Every plant below cleared Rogersville's own zone 6a and its 186-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rogersville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 22 — 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 Rogersville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Rogersville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Rogersville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rogersville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GR 23Nitrate · 800 ft
- EQUITRANS ROGERSVILLE STATION NUMBER 29Brownfields · 2300 ft
- ROGERSVILLE COMPRESSOR STA 29Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- CENTER TWP GREENE CNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- ROGERSVILLE CTL OFCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- EAST VIEW AMOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- TETLP M&R 73152 GREEN COUNTYBrownfields · 2.7 mi
- COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION WAYNESBURG COMP STABrownfields · 2.9 mi
- CUMBERLAND CONTURA LLCToxics Release Inventory · 3.2 mi
- TETLP-VALVE SITE BROWNS CREEK RDBrownfields · 3.2 mi
- TC AMOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- GR 41Nitrate · 4.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Rogersville'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 Rogersville.
Total Sites
138
within ~10 miles of Rogersville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Rogersville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rogersville
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Rogersville
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rogersville average
Your land is one point inside Rogersville
Everything above resolves to Rogersville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 248 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 Rogersville Average
Rogersville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Rogersville
- ●One soil character for all of Rogersville
- ●Frost dates read at Rogersville's scale: Apr 19 to Oct 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rogersville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Rogersville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Rogersville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Rogersville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Rogersville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rogersville average
How we know this about Rogersville
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 Rogersville’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 Rogersville
When does frost risk typically end in Rogersville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rogersville typically lands around Apr 19, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Rogersville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rogersville typically arrives around Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 8, so the watching starts about Sep 22 — about 186 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rogersville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rogersville sees about 186 frost-free days — roughly Apr 19 through Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 10 to Oct 8, about 151 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rogersville?
The federal record around Rogersville shows 138 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (68), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 Rogersville?
From about Sep 22 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Rogersville's scale — its 6a band and its 186-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rogersville'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 Rogersville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Rogersville's own scale — its own ~186-day season between 28°F freezes, the 248 acres it covers and 138 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rogersville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Rogersville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 19 and Oct 22 and the ~186-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 138 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rogersville, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rogersville's boundary and the 248 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~186-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Rogersville's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Rogersvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Rogersville's 248 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Greene County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Greene 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 Greene County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rogersville's 248 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rogersville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 248 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 Rogersville-wide figureread your own land →
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