Salladasburg, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Salladasburg, 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 Salladasburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Salladasburg — the short answer
Salladasburg, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 176 days between hard freezes, across 497 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 28
- 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
- ~176
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 497 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 Salladasburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Salladasburg's 176-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Salladasburg
Each reading below is measured for Salladasburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSalladasburg runs about 176 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
MeasuredSalladasburg 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 Salladasburg is in
Salladasburg sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Salladasburg's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Lycoming County is mostly North Central Appalachians. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Salladasburg
Every plant below cleared Salladasburg's own zone 6a and its 176-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Salladasburg?
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 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 28 (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. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Salladasburg
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Salladasburg, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Salladasburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Salladasburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DANDY MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- COHICKS TRADING POSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- DUNLAP THOMAS LBrownfields · 2200 ft
- LY 735Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- LY 443Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- SALLADASBURG ELEM SCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS/SALLADASBURG STATION 520Brownfields · 1.4 mi
- AJS SALES MFG INCBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- LY 344Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- LY 719Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- LY 703Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- LY 740Nitrate · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Salladasburg'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 Salladasburg.
Total Sites
327
within ~10 miles of Salladasburg
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
21 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Salladasburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Salladasburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Salladasburg, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Salladasburg — Nitrate (92 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (21 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Salladasburg
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 Salladasburg average
Your land is one point inside Salladasburg
Everything above resolves to Salladasburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 497 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 Salladasburg Average
Salladasburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Salladasburg
- ●One soil character for all of Salladasburg
- ●Frost dates read at Salladasburg's scale: Apr 28 to Oct 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Salladasburg's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Salladasburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Salladasburg, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Salladasburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Salladasburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Salladasburg average
How we know this about Salladasburg
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 Salladasburg’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 Salladasburg
When does frost risk typically end in Salladasburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Salladasburg typically lands around Apr 28, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Salladasburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Salladasburg 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 176 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Salladasburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Salladasburg sees about 176 frost-free days — roughly Apr 28 through Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 19 to Oct 7, about 141 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Salladasburg?
The federal record around Salladasburg is a meaningful one — 327 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (147), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Salladasburg?
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 Salladasburg's scale — its 6a band and its 176-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Salladasburg'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 Salladasburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Salladasburg's own scale — its own ~176-day season between 28°F freezes, the 497 acres it covers and 327 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Salladasburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Salladasburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 28 and Oct 21 and the ~176-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 327 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Salladasburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Salladasburg's boundary and the 497 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~176-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Salladasburg sits in the Ridge and Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Salladasburglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Salladasburg's 497 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lycoming County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lycoming 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 Lycoming County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Salladasburg's 497 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Salladasburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 497 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Salladasburg-wide figureread your own land →
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