Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Warfordsburg, 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 Warfordsburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Warfordsburg — the short answer
Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7a, about 207 days between hard freezes, across 209 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~207
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 209 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 7a is Warfordsburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Warfordsburg's 207-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Warfordsburg
Each reading below is measured for Warfordsburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWarfordsburg runs about 207 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
MeasuredWarfordsburg sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Warfordsburg is in
Warfordsburg sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Warfordsburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Fulton County.
What Grows in Warfordsburg
Every plant below cleared Warfordsburg's own zone 7a and its 207-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Warfordsburg?
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 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Warfordsburg
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Warfordsburg, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Warfordsburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Warfordsburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SUNOCO ENTERPRISESUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- P & W EXCAV PAVING DIVUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- MEI MFG FACBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- FU 250Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #2022Brownfields · 2.5 mi
- Pittman's MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Southern States Coop., Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- LANCO-PENNLANDToxics Release Inventory · 2.6 mi
- SHA BRIDGE 2107604Brownfields · 2.8 mi
- SHA BRIDGE 2107603Brownfields · 2.8 mi
- HIGHWAY EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- LONDON FOG INDUSTRIES HANCOCKBrownfields · 3.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Warfordsburg'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 Warfordsburg.
Total Sites
181
within ~10 miles of Warfordsburg
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Warfordsburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Warfordsburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Warfordsburg, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Warfordsburg — CAFO (5 sites) and Nitrate (66 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Warfordsburg
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 Warfordsburg average
Your land is one point inside Warfordsburg
Everything above resolves to Warfordsburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 209 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 Warfordsburg Average
Warfordsburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Warfordsburg
- ●One soil character for all of Warfordsburg
- ●Frost dates read at Warfordsburg's scale: Apr 6 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Warfordsburg's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Warfordsburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Warfordsburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Warfordsburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Warfordsburg average
How we know this about Warfordsburg
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 Warfordsburg’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 Warfordsburg
When does frost risk typically end in Warfordsburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Warfordsburg typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Warfordsburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Warfordsburg typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 207 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Warfordsburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Warfordsburg sees about 207 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 16, about 172 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Warfordsburg?
The federal record around Warfordsburg shows 181 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (77), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Warfordsburg?
From about Sep 30 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Warfordsburg's scale — its 7a band and its 207-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Warfordsburg'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 Warfordsburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Warfordsburg's own scale — its own ~207-day season between 28°F freezes, the 209 acres it covers and 181 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Warfordsburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Warfordsburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Oct 30 and the ~207-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 181 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Warfordsburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Warfordsburg's boundary and the 209 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~207-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Warfordsburg's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Warfordsburglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Warfordsburg's 209 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Fulton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Fulton 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 Fulton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Warfordsburg's 209 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Warfordsburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 209 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Warfordsburg-wide figureread your own land →
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