Woolrich, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Woolrich, 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 Woolrich lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Woolrich — the short answer
Woolrich, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 196 days between hard freezes, across 759 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 17
- 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
- ~196
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 759 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 Woolrich's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woolrich's 196-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woolrich
Each reading below is measured for Woolrich itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoolrich runs about 196 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredWoolrich 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 Woolrich is in
Woolrich sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woolrich's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Clinton County is mostly North Central Appalachians. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Woolrich
Every plant below cleared Woolrich's own zone 6b and its 196-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woolrich?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 17 (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. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Woolrich
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Woolrich, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woolrich
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woolrich. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WOOLRICH ELEM SCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- WOOLRICH COMM UNITED METH CHUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- WOOLRICH GROCERY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- WOOLRICHUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- WOOLRICH PLTToxics Release Inventory · 0.9 mi
- WINDY RIDGE BREEDER FARM LLCCAFO · 1.6 mi
- BRODART COBrownfields · 2.0 mi
- BRODART COToxics Release Inventory · 2.0 mi
- CLINTON CNTY SWAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- ALIN WOODWORKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- FIRST QUALITY NONWOVENS/WAYNE TWP PLTBrownfields · 2.0 mi
- CN 483Nitrate · 2.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woolrich'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 Woolrich.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woolrich
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woolrich
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woolrich, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Woolrich — Nitrate (98 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Woolrich
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 Woolrich average
Your land is one point inside Woolrich
Everything above resolves to Woolrich as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 759 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 Woolrich Average
Woolrich Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Woolrich
- ●One soil character for all of Woolrich
- ●Frost dates read at Woolrich's scale: Apr 17 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woolrich's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woolrich
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woolrich, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woolrich averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woolrich — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woolrich average
How we know this about Woolrich
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 Woolrich’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 Woolrich
When does frost risk typically end in Woolrich?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woolrich typically lands around Apr 17, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Woolrich?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woolrich 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 196 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woolrich?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woolrich sees about 196 frost-free days — roughly Apr 17 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 8 to Oct 16, about 161 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woolrich?
The federal record around Woolrich is a meaningful one — 365 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (187), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Woolrich?
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 Woolrich's scale — its 6b band and its 196-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woolrich'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 Woolrich’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Woolrich's own scale — its own ~196-day season between 28°F freezes, the 759 acres it covers and 365 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woolrich's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woolrich's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 17 and Oct 30 and the ~196-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 365 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woolrich, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woolrich's boundary and the 759 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~196-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Woolrich sits in the Ridge and Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Woolrichlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woolrich's 759 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clinton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clinton 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 Clinton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woolrich's 759 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woolrich you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 759 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Woolrich-wide figureread your own land →
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