Warriors Mark, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Warriors Mark, 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 Warriors Mark lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Warriors Mark — the short answer
Warriors Mark, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 200 days between hard freezes, across 415 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~200
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 415 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 Warriors Mark's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Warriors Mark's 200-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Warriors Mark
Each reading below is measured for Warriors Mark itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWarriors Mark runs about 200 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
MeasuredWarriors Mark 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 Warriors Mark is in
Warriors Mark sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Warriors Mark's own centroid rather than borrowed from Huntingdon County.
What Grows in Warriors Mark
Every plant below cleared Warriors Mark's own zone 6b and its 200-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Warriors Mark?
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 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — 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 Warriors Mark
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Warriors Mark, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Warriors Mark
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Warriors Mark. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SNAPPYS 2Underground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- MARTIN GEN STORE 210Underground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- PERFECTION AUTO BODYBrownfields · 2300 ft
- TELE EQUIP BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- HELENA CHEMICAL COBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- HU 263Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- NORTHWOOD MICROWAVE TOWERUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- FED CARBIDE/BALD EAGLE PLTBrownfields · 3.4 mi
- HU 407Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- HU 200Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- MILLER PARTS & SERVICE INCBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- WILLOW BEHRER FARMCAFO · 3.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Warriors Mark'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 Warriors Mark.
Total Sites
172
within ~10 miles of Warriors Mark
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Warriors Mark
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Warriors Mark
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Warriors Mark, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Warriors Mark — CAFO (3 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).
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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 Warriors Mark
Everything above resolves to Warriors Mark as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 415 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 Warriors Mark Average
Warriors Mark Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Warriors Mark
- ●One soil character for all of Warriors Mark
- ●Frost dates read at Warriors Mark's scale: Apr 14 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Warriors Mark's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Warriors Mark
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Warriors Mark, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Warriors Mark — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Warriors Mark
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 Warriors Mark’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 Warriors Mark
When does frost risk typically end in Warriors Mark?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Warriors Mark typically lands around Apr 14, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Warriors Mark?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Warriors Mark typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 200 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Warriors Mark?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Warriors Mark sees about 200 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 17, about 165 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Warriors Mark?
The federal record around Warriors Mark shows 172 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (66), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Warriors Mark?
From about Oct 1 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 31 (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 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Warriors Mark's scale — its 6b band and its 200-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Warriors Mark'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 Warriors Mark’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Warriors Mark's own scale — its own ~200-day season between 28°F freezes, the 415 acres it covers and 172 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Warriors Mark's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Warriors Mark's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Oct 31 and the ~200-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 172 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Warriors Mark, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Warriors Mark's boundary and the 415 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~200-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Warriors Mark's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Warriors Marklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Warriors Mark's 415 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Huntingdon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Huntingdon 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 Huntingdon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Warriors Mark's 415 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Warriors Mark you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 415 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 Warriors Mark-wide figureread your own land →
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