Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Sharon Hill, 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 Sharon Hill 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 Sharon Hill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Sharon Hill — the short answer
Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7b, about 254 days between hard freezes, across 494 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~254
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 494 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 7b is Sharon Hill's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sharon Hill's 254-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sharon Hill
Each reading below is measured for Sharon Hill itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSharon Hill runs about 254 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
MeasuredSharon Hill sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Sharon Hill is in
Sharon Hill sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sharon Hill's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Delaware County is mostly Northern Piedmont. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Sharon Hill
Every plant below cleared Sharon Hill's own zone 7b and its 254-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sharon Hill?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — 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 Sharon Hill
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Sharon Hill, first recorded 2017. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sharon Hill
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sharon Hill. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ACAD PARK HIGH SCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- SCHMIDT BAKING CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- RUSSELL J MEYERS ROOFING COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- UNITED PARCEL SERVICE SCS SHARON HILLBrownfields · 1400 ft
- SHARON HILL HGSuperfund · 1500 ft
- CLEVELAND WRECKING COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- 7 ELEVEN 40229Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- ATLANTIC SERVICE STATIONBrownfields · 1700 ft
- FED EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- GETTY 67382Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- FERGUSON MACANNUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- DE 834Nitrate · 2000 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sharon Hill'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 Sharon Hill.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sharon Hill
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sharon Hill
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sharon Hill, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 90 sites within ~10 miles of Sharon Hill. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Sharon Hill
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 Sharon Hill average
Your land is one point inside Sharon Hill
Everything above resolves to Sharon Hill as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 494 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 Sharon Hill Average
Sharon Hill Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Sharon Hill
- ●One soil character for all of Sharon Hill
- ●Frost dates read at Sharon Hill's scale: Mar 17 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sharon Hill's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sharon Hill
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We read public map data around Sharon Hill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sharon Hill average
How we know this about Sharon Hill
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 Sharon Hill’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 Sharon Hill
When does frost risk typically end in Sharon Hill?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sharon Hill typically lands around Mar 17, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Sharon Hill?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sharon Hill typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 254 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sharon Hill?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sharon Hill sees about 254 frost-free days — roughly Mar 17 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 7 to Nov 12, about 219 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sharon Hill?
The federal record around Sharon Hill runs heavier than most — 4,897 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (2,296), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Sharon Hill?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sharon Hill's scale — its 7b band and its 254-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sharon Hill'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 Sharon Hill’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sharon Hill's own scale — its own ~254-day season between 28°F freezes, the 494 acres it covers and 4,897 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sharon Hill's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sharon Hill's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 17 and Nov 26 and the ~254-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 4,897 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sharon Hill, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sharon Hill's boundary and the 494 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~254-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Sharon Hill sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Sharon Hilllydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sharon Hill's 494 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Delaware County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Delaware 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 Delaware County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sharon Hill's 494 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sharon Hill you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 494 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Sharon Hill-wide figureread your own land →
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