Verona, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Verona, 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 Verona 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 Verona — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Verona — the short answer
Verona, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 324 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 324 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 Verona's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Verona's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Verona
Each reading below is measured for Verona itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredVerona runs about 217 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
MeasuredVerona 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 Verona is in
Verona sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Verona's own centroid rather than borrowed from Allegheny County.
What Grows in Verona
Every plant below cleared Verona's own zone 6b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Verona?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Verona
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Verona, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Verona
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Verona. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GETGO 3476Underground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- NICKLES BAKERY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- KERRS ARCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- SCIULLO AUTO SALESBrownfields · 800 ft
- ROBROY INDUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- ROBROY INDUSTRIESToxics Release Inventory · 1000 ft
- BUNTING GRAPHICS, INC.Brownfields · 1000 ft
- LAMAGNA CHEESEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BERGAMASCO AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- CONCO SYSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- AZCONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- GIANT EAGLE 2404 PHARMACYBrownfields · 1800 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Verona'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 Verona.
Total Sites
2,469
within ~10 miles of Verona
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
10 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Verona
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Verona
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Verona
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 Verona average
Your land is one point inside Verona
Everything above resolves to Verona as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 324 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 Verona Average
Verona Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Verona
- ●One soil character for all of Verona
- ●Frost dates read at Verona's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Verona's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Verona
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Verona, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Verona averages can't show:
We read public map data around Verona — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Verona average
How we know this about Verona
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 Verona’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 Verona
When does frost risk typically end in Verona?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Verona typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Verona?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Verona typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Verona?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Verona sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 25, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Verona?
The federal record around Verona is a meaningful one — 2,469 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,158), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Verona?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Verona's scale — its 6b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Verona'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 Verona’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Verona's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 324 acres it covers and 2,469 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Verona's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Verona's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 8 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,469 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Verona, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Verona's boundary and the 324 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Verona's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Veronalydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Verona's 324 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Allegheny County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Allegheny 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 Allegheny County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Verona's 324 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Verona you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 324 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 Verona-wide figureread your own land →