Roscoe, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Roscoe, 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 Roscoe 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 Roscoe — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Roscoe — the short answer
Roscoe, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 116 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~214
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 116 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 Roscoe's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Roscoe's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Roscoe
Each reading below is measured for Roscoe itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRoscoe runs about 214 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
MeasuredRoscoe 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 Roscoe is in
Roscoe sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Roscoe's own centroid rather than borrowed from Washington County.
What Grows in Roscoe
Every plant below cleared Roscoe's own zone 6b and its 214-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Roscoe?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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 Roscoe
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Roscoe, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Roscoe
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Roscoe. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ROSCOE AMOCOBrownfields · 500 ft
- ROSCOE AMOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- PUMP STA 2Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- PUMP STA 3Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- INTERSTATE PAPER SUPPLY CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- PUMP STA 1Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- REGLUATOR STATION 964 HIGH ROAD 700595Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- PUMP STA 4Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- MUNI AUTH OF WASHINGTON TWPPFAS · 0.8 mi
- SPEED D MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HENWIL CORPToxics Release Inventory · 1.3 mi
- HENWIL CORPBrownfields · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Roscoe'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 Roscoe.
Total Sites
521
within ~10 miles of Roscoe
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Roscoe
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Roscoe
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Roscoe, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 5 sites within ~10 miles of Roscoe. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Roscoe
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 Roscoe average
Your land is one point inside Roscoe
Everything above resolves to Roscoe as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 116 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 Roscoe Average
Roscoe Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Roscoe
- ●One soil character for all of Roscoe
- ●Frost dates read at Roscoe's scale: Apr 6 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Roscoe's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Roscoe
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Roscoe, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Roscoe averages can't show:
We read public map data around Roscoe — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Roscoe average
How we know this about Roscoe
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 Roscoe’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 Roscoe
When does frost risk typically end in Roscoe?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Roscoe typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Roscoe?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Roscoe typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Roscoe?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Roscoe sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 23, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Roscoe?
The federal record around Roscoe is a meaningful one — 521 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (297), the nearest Brownfields 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 Roscoe?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Roscoe's scale — its 6b band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Roscoe'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 Roscoe’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Roscoe's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 116 acres it covers and 521 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Roscoe's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Roscoe's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Nov 6 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 521 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Roscoe, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Roscoe's boundary and the 116 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~214-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Roscoe's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Roscoelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Roscoe's 116 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Washington County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Washington 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 Washington County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Roscoe's 116 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Roscoe you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 116 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Roscoe-wide figureread your own land →
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