Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, 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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Wallenpaupack Lake Estates — the short answer
Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 170 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~170
- 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 6a is Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's 170-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
Each reading below is measured for Wallenpaupack Lake Estates itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWallenpaupack Lake Estates runs about 170 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
MeasuredWallenpaupack Lake Estates 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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates is in
Wallenpaupack Lake Estates sits in the North Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Wayne County is mostly Northern Allegheny Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
Every plant below cleared Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's own zone 6a and its 170-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 16 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wallenpaupack Lake Estates. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WN 300Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- LAKESIDE RESORT ENTERPRISES LPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- GUMBLE BROSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- WALLENPAUPACK LAKE ESTATESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- WM REICHMAN JRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- PAUPACK HILLS GOLF & CCBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- WN 148Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- PAUPACK HILLS GOLF & CCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- WN 167Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- MTN BAY AIR PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- PI 629Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- STERLING MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wallenpaupack Lake Estates'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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates.
Total Sites
293
within ~10 miles of Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 174 sites within ~10 miles of Wallenpaupack Lake Estates. 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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates average
Your land is one point inside Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
Everything above resolves to Wallenpaupack Lake Estates 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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates Average
Wallenpaupack Lake Estates Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
- ●One soil character for all of Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
- ●Frost dates read at Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's scale: Apr 29 to Oct 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wallenpaupack Lake Estates averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wallenpaupack Lake Estates — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wallenpaupack Lake Estates average
How we know this about Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates’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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
When does frost risk typically end in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates typically lands around Apr 29, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates typically arrives around Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 2, so the watching starts about Sep 16 — about 170 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wallenpaupack Lake Estates sees about 170 frost-free days — roughly Apr 29 through Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 20 to Oct 2, about 135 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates?
The federal record around Wallenpaupack Lake Estates is a meaningful one — 293 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (174), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.4 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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates?
From about Sep 16 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's scale — its 6a band and its 170-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wallenpaupack Lake Estates'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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's own scale — its own ~170-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,106 acres it covers and 293 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 29 and Oct 16 and the ~170-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 293 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, the closest Nitrate record about 1.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's boundary and the 1,106 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~170-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Wallenpaupack Lake Estates sits in the North Central Appalachians — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Wallenpaupack Lake Estateslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's 1,106 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wayne County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wayne 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 Wayne County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's 1,106 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wallenpaupack Lake Estates you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,106 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.4 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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates-wide figureread your own land →
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