Wesleyville, 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 Wesleyville, 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 Wesleyville 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 Wesleyville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Wesleyville — the short answer
Wesleyville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 339 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 339 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 Wesleyville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wesleyville's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wesleyville
Each reading below is measured for Wesleyville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWesleyville runs about 221 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
MeasuredWesleyville 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 Wesleyville is in
Wesleyville sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Wesleyville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Erie County is mostly Erie Drift Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Wesleyville
Every plant below cleared Wesleyville's own zone 6b and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wesleyville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Wesleyville
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Wesleyville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Wesleyville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wesleyville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SGL 218Underground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- WABASH RRUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- HERKYSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- WESLEYVILLE BRANCH USPSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- BATES COLLISIONBrownfields · 1500 ft
- COLLISION CRAFTBrownfields · 1500 ft
- VILLAGE CLNRBrownfields · 1500 ft
- COUNTRY FAIR STORE 72Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- LAURENCE J SPAEDER & SONSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- WESLEYVILLE BORO ERIE CNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- POWELLS PENNZOILUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- ATLANTIC 0364 0901Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wesleyville'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 Wesleyville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wesleyville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wesleyville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wesleyville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 91 sites within ~10 miles of Wesleyville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Wesleyville
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 Wesleyville average
Your land is one point inside Wesleyville
Everything above resolves to Wesleyville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 339 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 Wesleyville Average
Wesleyville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Wesleyville
- ●One soil character for all of Wesleyville
- ●Frost dates read at Wesleyville's scale: Apr 10 to Nov 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wesleyville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wesleyville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wesleyville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wesleyville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wesleyville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wesleyville average
How we know this about Wesleyville
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 Wesleyville’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 Wesleyville
When does frost risk typically end in Wesleyville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wesleyville typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Wesleyville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wesleyville typically arrives around Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 3, so the watching starts about Oct 18 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wesleyville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wesleyville sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Nov 3, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wesleyville?
The federal record around Wesleyville is a meaningful one — 1,007 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (434), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Wesleyville?
From about Oct 18 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wesleyville's scale — its 6b band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wesleyville'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 Wesleyville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Wesleyville's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 339 acres it covers and 1,007 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wesleyville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wesleyville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Nov 17 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,007 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wesleyville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wesleyville's boundary and the 339 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Wesleyville sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Wesleyvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wesleyville's 339 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Erie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Erie 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 Erie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wesleyville's 339 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wesleyville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 339 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Wesleyville-wide figureread your own land →