Shinglehouse, 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 Shinglehouse, 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 Shinglehouse lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Shinglehouse — the short answer
Shinglehouse, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 5b, about 159 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~159
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Shinglehouse's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Shinglehouse's 159-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Shinglehouse
Each reading below is measured for Shinglehouse itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredShinglehouse runs about 159 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
MeasuredShinglehouse 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 Shinglehouse is in
Shinglehouse sits in the North Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Shinglehouse's own centroid rather than borrowed from Potter County.
What Grows in Shinglehouse
Every plant below cleared Shinglehouse's own zone 5b and its 159-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Shinglehouse?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 13 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Shinglehouse
Spotted lanternfly documented 10 miles from Shinglehouse, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Shinglehouse
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Shinglehouse. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KEECHS TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- RICHARD MILLIKEN AUTO PARTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- SHINGLEHOUSE VOL FIRE DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- SHINGLEHOUSE BOROUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- MILL STREET LOCATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- NEWTONS SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- EDS QUAKER STATEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- OSWAYO VALLEY JR SR HIGH SCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ACORN MKT 43Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- UNIMART CORPBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- NORTONS BLDG SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- PO 240Nitrate · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Shinglehouse'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 Shinglehouse.
Total Sites
118
within ~10 miles of Shinglehouse
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Shinglehouse
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Shinglehouse
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Shinglehouse, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 56 sites within ~10 miles of Shinglehouse. 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.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Shinglehouse
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Your land is one point inside Shinglehouse
Everything above resolves to Shinglehouse as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Shinglehouse Average
Shinglehouse Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Shinglehouse
- ●One soil character for all of Shinglehouse
- ●Frost dates read at Shinglehouse's scale: May 7 to Oct 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Shinglehouse's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Shinglehouse
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Shinglehouse, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Shinglehouse averages can't show:
We read public map data around Shinglehouse — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Shinglehouse average
How we know this about Shinglehouse
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 Shinglehouse’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 Shinglehouse
When does frost risk typically end in Shinglehouse?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Shinglehouse typically lands around May 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Shinglehouse?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Shinglehouse typically arrives around Oct 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 29, so the watching starts about Sep 13 — about 159 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Shinglehouse?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Shinglehouse sees about 159 frost-free days — roughly May 7 through Oct 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 28 to Sep 29, about 124 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Shinglehouse?
The federal record around Shinglehouse is a meaningful one — 118 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (56), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Shinglehouse?
From about Sep 13 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Shinglehouse's scale — its 5b band and its 159-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Shinglehouse'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 Shinglehouse’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Shinglehouse's own scale — its own ~159-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,331 acres it covers and 118 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Shinglehouse's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Shinglehouse's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 7 and Oct 13 and the ~159-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 118 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Shinglehouse, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Shinglehouse's boundary and the 1,331 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~159-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Shinglehouse's own centroid, the North Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Shinglehouselydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Shinglehouse's 1,331 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Potter County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Potter 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 Potter County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Shinglehouse's 1,331 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Shinglehouse you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,331 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Shinglehouse-wide figureread your own land →