Sierra View, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Sierra View, 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 Sierra View 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 Sierra View — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Sierra View — the short answer
Sierra View, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 190 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~190
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Sierra View's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sierra View's 190-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sierra View
Each reading below is measured for Sierra View itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSierra View runs about 190 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
MeasuredSierra View 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 Sierra View is in
Sierra View sits in the North Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Sierra View's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monroe County.
What Grows in Sierra View
Every plant below cleared Sierra View's own zone 6b and its 190-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sierra View?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Sierra View
Spotted lanternfly documented 0 miles from Sierra View, first recorded 2018. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sierra View
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sierra View. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KNJ AUTO BODYBrownfields · 1100 ft
- SCHELLER PROPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- MO 683Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- MOUNTAIN RD BODY SHOPBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- UNI MART 4345 EFFORT PAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #3062Brownfields · 1.6 mi
- MT EFFORT SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- EFFORT GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- GOWER WELL DRILLING INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- MO 398Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- JEAN GREEN RESIDENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- JACKSON TWP MONROE CNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sierra View'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 Sierra View.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sierra View
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sierra View
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sierra View, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 178 sites within ~10 miles of Sierra View. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Sierra View
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 Sierra View average
Your land is one point inside Sierra View
Everything above resolves to Sierra View as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Sierra View Average
Sierra View Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Sierra View
- ●One soil character for all of Sierra View
- ●Frost dates read at Sierra View's scale: Apr 17 to Oct 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sierra View's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sierra View
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sierra View, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sierra View averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sierra View — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sierra View average
How we know this about Sierra View
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 Sierra View’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 Sierra View
When does frost risk typically end in Sierra View?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sierra View typically lands around Apr 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 May 8.
When is the first frost in Sierra View?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sierra View typically arrives around Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 10, so the watching starts about Sep 24 — about 190 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sierra View?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sierra View sees about 190 frost-free days — roughly Apr 17 through Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 8 to Oct 10, about 155 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sierra View?
The federal record around Sierra View is a meaningful one — 269 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (178), the nearest Brownfields 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 Sierra View?
From about Sep 24 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sierra View's scale — its 6b band and its 190-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sierra View'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 Sierra View’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sierra View's own scale — its own ~190-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,404 acres it covers and 269 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sierra View's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sierra View's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 17 and Oct 24 and the ~190-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 269 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sierra View, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sierra View's boundary and the 3,404 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~190-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Sierra View's own centroid, the North Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Sierra Viewlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sierra View's 3,404 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Monroe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Monroe 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 Monroe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sierra View's 3,404 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sierra View you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,404 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Sierra View-wide figureread your own land →