Tidioute, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Growers here do well with cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Tidioute, 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 Tidioute 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 Tidioute — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Tidioute — the short answer
Tidioute, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 177 days between hard freezes, across 687 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~177
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 687 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 Tidioute's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tidioute's 177-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tidioute
Each reading below is measured for Tidioute itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTidioute runs about 177 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
MeasuredTidioute 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 Tidioute is in
Tidioute sits in the North Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Tidioute's own centroid rather than borrowed from Warren County.
What Grows in Tidioute
Every plant below cleared Tidioute's own zone 6a and its 177-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tidioute?
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 Apr 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — 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 Tidioute
Spotted lanternfly documented 5 miles from Tidioute, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Tidioute
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tidioute. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SGL 086Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- KINZUA WOOD PRODUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- BUCCARDOS GAS RESTAURANT & MOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- MAIN STREET MKT PLACEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- WR 254Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- WR 252Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- JOSEPH V HEENAN JRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR STORE NO 10587Brownfields · 1.3 mi
- TRADING POSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- WR 258Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- WR 235Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- WR 299Nitrate · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tidioute'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 Tidioute.
Total Sites
102
within ~10 miles of Tidioute
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tidioute
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tidioute
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tidioute, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 74 sites within ~10 miles of Tidioute. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Tidioute
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 Tidioute
Everything above resolves to Tidioute as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 687 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 Tidioute Average
Tidioute Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Tidioute
- ●One soil character for all of Tidioute
- ●Frost dates read at Tidioute's scale: May 1 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tidioute's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tidioute
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tidioute, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tidioute averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tidioute — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tidioute average
How we know this about Tidioute
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 Tidioute’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 Tidioute
When does frost risk typically end in Tidioute?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tidioute typically lands around May 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Tidioute?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tidioute typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 177 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tidioute?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tidioute sees about 177 frost-free days — roughly May 1 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 22 to Oct 11, about 142 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tidioute?
The federal record around Tidioute shows 102 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (74), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Tidioute?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tidioute's scale — its 6a band and its 177-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tidioute'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 Tidioute’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Tidioute's own scale — its own ~177-day season between 28°F freezes, the 687 acres it covers and 102 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tidioute's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tidioute's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 1 and Oct 25 and the ~177-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 102 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tidioute, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tidioute's boundary and the 687 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~177-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tidioute's own centroid, the North Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Tidioutelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tidioute's 687 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Warren County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Warren 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 Warren County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tidioute's 687 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tidioute you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 687 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Tidioute-wide figureread your own land →
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