Sabinsville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Sabinsville, 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 Sabinsville 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 Sabinsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Sabinsville — the short answer
Sabinsville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 5b, about 161 days between hard freezes, across 336 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~161
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 336 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 5b is Sabinsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sabinsville's 161-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sabinsville
Each reading below is measured for Sabinsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSabinsville runs about 161 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
MeasuredSabinsville sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Sabinsville is in
Sabinsville sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sabinsville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Tioga County is mostly North Central Appalachians. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Sabinsville
Every plant below cleared Sabinsville's own zone 5b and its 161-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sabinsville?
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 Apr 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 11 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Sabinsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Sabinsville, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sabinsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sabinsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SABINSVILLE COMPRESSOR STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- EGTS SABINSVILLE COMPRESOR STATIONBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- EGTS BELLON GATE SETTINGBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- TRI CNTY RURAL ELECUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- UGI UTILITIES INC WESTFIELDBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- WESTFIELD TANNING COToxics Release Inventory · 3.2 mi
- MOSHERS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- SABINSVILLE HELIPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- TOPS SUPERMARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR STORE NO 10943Brownfields · 3.6 mi
- ACKLEY & SONSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- ELECTRI-CORD MFGBrownfields · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sabinsville'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 Sabinsville.
Total Sites
113
within ~10 miles of Sabinsville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sabinsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sabinsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sabinsville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 66 sites within ~10 miles of Sabinsville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Sabinsville
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 Sabinsville average
Your land is one point inside Sabinsville
Everything above resolves to Sabinsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 336 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 Sabinsville Average
Sabinsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Sabinsville
- ●One soil character for all of Sabinsville
- ●Frost dates read at Sabinsville's scale: May 3 to Oct 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sabinsville's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sabinsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sabinsville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sabinsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sabinsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sabinsville average
How we know this about Sabinsville
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 Sabinsville’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 Sabinsville
When does frost risk typically end in Sabinsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sabinsville typically lands around May 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Sabinsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sabinsville typically arrives around Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 27, so the watching starts about Sep 11 — about 161 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sabinsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sabinsville sees about 161 frost-free days — roughly May 3 through Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 24 to Sep 27, about 126 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sabinsville?
The federal record around Sabinsville shows 113 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (66), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Sabinsville?
From about Sep 11 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sabinsville's scale — its 5b band and its 161-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sabinsville'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 Sabinsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sabinsville's own scale — its own ~161-day season between 28°F freezes, the 336 acres it covers and 113 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sabinsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sabinsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 3 and Oct 11 and the ~161-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 113 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sabinsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sabinsville's boundary and the 336 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~161-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Sabinsville sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Sabinsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sabinsville's 336 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tioga County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tioga 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 Tioga County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sabinsville's 336 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sabinsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 336 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Sabinsville-wide figureread your own land →