Weissport East, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Weissport East, 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 Weissport East lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Weissport East — the short answer
Weissport East, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 203 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~203
- 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 6b is Weissport East's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Weissport East's 203-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Weissport East
Each reading below is measured for Weissport East itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWeissport East runs about 203 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
MeasuredWeissport East 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 Weissport East is in
Weissport East sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Weissport East's own centroid rather than borrowed from Carbon County.
What Grows in Weissport East
Every plant below cleared Weissport East's own zone 6b and its 203-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Weissport East?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — 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 Weissport East
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Weissport East, first recorded 2017. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Weissport East
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Weissport East. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FRANKS SVC CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- CARBON PLAZA MALLPFAS · 1600 ft
- LEHIGHTON WATER AUTHORITYPFAS · 1600 ft
- CARL J ZIEGENFUSS RESIDENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- ECKMAN LUMBERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- CAR COUNTRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- ALLEN MOTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- LEHIGHTON WORK CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- FRANKLIN TWP SPVRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- STAN GRAVER TEXACO SVC STABrownfields · 0.5 mi
- HILLSIDE SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SQUARE ONE 108Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Weissport East'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 Weissport East.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Weissport East
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Weissport East
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Weissport East, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Weissport East — PFAS (5 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (210 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Weissport East
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 Weissport East average
Your land is one point inside Weissport East
Everything above resolves to Weissport East 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 Weissport East Average
Weissport East Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Weissport East
- ●One soil character for all of Weissport East
- ●Frost dates read at Weissport East's scale: Apr 9 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Weissport East's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Weissport East
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Weissport East, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Weissport East averages can't show:
We read public map data around Weissport East — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Weissport East average
How we know this about Weissport East
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 Weissport East’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 Weissport East
When does frost risk typically end in Weissport East?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Weissport East typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Weissport East?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Weissport East typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 203 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Weissport East?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Weissport East sees about 203 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 15, about 168 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Weissport East?
The federal record around Weissport East is a meaningful one — 330 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (210), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Weissport East?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Weissport East's scale — its 6b band and its 203-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Weissport East'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 Weissport East’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Weissport East's own scale — its own ~203-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,346 acres it covers and 330 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Weissport East's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Weissport East's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Oct 29 and the ~203-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 330 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Weissport East, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Weissport East's boundary and the 1,346 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~203-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Weissport East's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Weissport Eastlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Weissport East's 1,346 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Carbon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Carbon 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 Carbon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Weissport East's 1,346 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Weissport East you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,346 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Weissport East-wide figureread your own land →