Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Womelsdorf, 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 Womelsdorf lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Womelsdorf — the short answer
Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7a, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 554 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 554 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 Womelsdorf's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Womelsdorf's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Womelsdorf
Each reading below is measured for Womelsdorf itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWomelsdorf runs about 217 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
MeasuredWomelsdorf 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 Womelsdorf is in
Womelsdorf sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Womelsdorf's own centroid rather than borrowed from Berks County.
What Grows in Womelsdorf
Every plant below cleared Womelsdorf's own zone 7a and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Womelsdorf?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Womelsdorf
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Womelsdorf, first recorded 2017. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Womelsdorf
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Womelsdorf. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RPD TECH CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- BETHANY CHILDRENS HOMEUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- GEORGE R MANBECKUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- CTL GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- DENNIS G SATTAZAHNUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- TURKEY HILL MINIT MKT 295Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- KURTZ PHARMACYUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- RICHLAND SHOE COUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- HASSLERS AMOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- DOUBLE H BOOT MFGToxics Release Inventory · 950 ft
- N American Refrac--Womelsdorf, Pa.Mining · 1200 ft
- BOYERS IGAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Womelsdorf'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 Womelsdorf.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Womelsdorf
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Womelsdorf
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Womelsdorf, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Womelsdorf — CAFO (47 sites) and Nitrate (220 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Womelsdorf
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Your land is one point inside Womelsdorf
Everything above resolves to Womelsdorf as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 554 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 Womelsdorf Average
Womelsdorf Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Womelsdorf
- ●One soil character for all of Womelsdorf
- ●Frost dates read at Womelsdorf's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Womelsdorf's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Womelsdorf
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Womelsdorf averages can't show:
We read public map data around Womelsdorf — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Womelsdorf average
How we know this about Womelsdorf
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 Womelsdorf’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 Womelsdorf
When does frost risk typically end in Womelsdorf?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Womelsdorf typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Womelsdorf?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Womelsdorf typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Womelsdorf?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Womelsdorf sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 23, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Womelsdorf?
The federal record around Womelsdorf runs heavier than most — 779 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (348), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Womelsdorf?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Womelsdorf's scale — its 7a band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Womelsdorf'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 Womelsdorf’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Womelsdorf's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 554 acres it covers and 779 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Womelsdorf's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Womelsdorf's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 6 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 779 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Womelsdorf, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Womelsdorf's boundary and the 554 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Womelsdorf's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Womelsdorflydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Womelsdorf's 554 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Berks County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Berks 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 Berks County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Womelsdorf's 554 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Womelsdorf you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 554 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 Womelsdorf-wide figureread your own land →
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