Seven Fields, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Seven Fields, 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 Seven Fields lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Seven Fields — the short answer
Seven Fields, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 515 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- 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 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~212
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 515 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 Seven Fields's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Seven Fields's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Seven Fields
Each reading below is measured for Seven Fields itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSeven Fields runs about 212 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
MeasuredSeven Fields 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 Seven Fields is in
Seven Fields sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Seven Fields's own centroid rather than borrowed from Butler County.
What Grows in Seven Fields
Every plant below cleared Seven Fields's own zone 6b and its 212-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Seven Fields?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Seven Fields
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Seven Fields, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Seven Fields
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Seven Fields. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SUNOCO 0323 6783Brownfields · 800 ft
- 7 ELEVEN 40119Underground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- K MART 7417Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- RYDER TRUCK RENTAL 0170AUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- STEEL CITY MACH & RIGGINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- SUNOCO 0012 5807Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BATESVILLE CASKET CUSTOMER SVC CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- 7 ELEVEN 36147Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- GETGO 3668Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- GIANT EAGLE 0042Brownfields · 2000 ft
- NPT CO CRIDERS CORNERS EXCHANGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- GRABENSTEIN TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Seven Fields'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 Seven Fields.
Total Sites
784
within ~10 miles of Seven Fields
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Seven Fields
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Seven Fields
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Seven Fields, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Seven Fields — PFAS (14 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (56 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Seven Fields
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Seven Fields
Everything above resolves to Seven Fields as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 515 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 Seven Fields Average
Seven Fields Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Seven Fields
- ●One soil character for all of Seven Fields
- ●Frost dates read at Seven Fields's scale: Apr 9 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Seven Fields's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Seven Fields
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Seven Fields, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Seven Fields averages can't show:
We read public map data around Seven Fields — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Seven Fields average
How we know this about Seven Fields
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 Seven Fields’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 Seven Fields
When does frost risk typically end in Seven Fields?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Seven Fields 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 Seven Fields?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Seven Fields typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Seven Fields?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Seven Fields sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 24, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Seven Fields?
The federal record around Seven Fields is a meaningful one — 784 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (373), the nearest Brownfields 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 Seven Fields?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Seven Fields's scale — its 6b band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Seven Fields'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 Seven Fields’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Seven Fields's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 515 acres it covers and 784 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Seven Fields's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Seven Fields's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Nov 7 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 784 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Seven Fields, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Seven Fields's boundary and the 515 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~212-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Seven Fields's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Seven Fieldslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Seven Fields's 515 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Butler County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Butler 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 Butler County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Seven Fields's 515 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Seven Fields you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 515 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Seven Fields-wide figureread your own land →
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