Wurtemburg, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Wurtemburg, 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 Wurtemburg 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 Wurtemburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Wurtemburg — the short answer
Wurtemburg, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 371 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 371 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 Wurtemburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wurtemburg's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wurtemburg
Each reading below is measured for Wurtemburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWurtemburg runs about 201 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
MeasuredWurtemburg 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 Wurtemburg is in
Wurtemburg sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Wurtemburg's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Lawrence County is mostly Erie Drift Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Wurtemburg
Every plant below cleared Wurtemburg's own zone 6b and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wurtemburg?
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 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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 Wurtemburg
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Wurtemburg, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Wurtemburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wurtemburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CHRISTY PLAZA SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- ELLWOOD CITY TRANSITUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PERRY TWP MUNI AUTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- WAYNE TWP MUNI AUTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PRECISION METAL PRODUCTSToxics Release Inventory · 0.7 mi
- CYCLE II CORPToxics Release Inventory · 0.8 mi
- ELLWOOD CITY WORK CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- WHITING DRY CLNR/ELWOOD CITYBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- GET GO 3182Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- ELLPORT SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- HALL INDUSTRIES INCBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- LEGEND BUICK PONTIACBrownfields · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wurtemburg'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 Wurtemburg.
Total Sites
519
within ~10 miles of Wurtemburg
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wurtemburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wurtemburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wurtemburg, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Wurtemburg — Toxics Release Inventory (58 sites) and PFAS (5 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Wurtemburg
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 Wurtemburg average
Your land is one point inside Wurtemburg
Everything above resolves to Wurtemburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 371 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 Wurtemburg Average
Wurtemburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Wurtemburg
- ●One soil character for all of Wurtemburg
- ●Frost dates read at Wurtemburg's scale: Apr 16 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wurtemburg's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wurtemburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wurtemburg, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wurtemburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wurtemburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wurtemburg average
How we know this about Wurtemburg
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 Wurtemburg’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 Wurtemburg
When does frost risk typically end in Wurtemburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wurtemburg typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Wurtemburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wurtemburg typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wurtemburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wurtemburg sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 20, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wurtemburg?
The federal record around Wurtemburg is a meaningful one — 519 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (286), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Wurtemburg?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wurtemburg's scale — its 6b band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wurtemburg'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 Wurtemburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Wurtemburg's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 371 acres it covers and 519 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wurtemburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wurtemburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Nov 3 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 519 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wurtemburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wurtemburg's boundary and the 371 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Wurtemburg sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Wurtemburglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wurtemburg's 371 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lawrence County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lawrence 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 Lawrence County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wurtemburg's 371 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wurtemburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 371 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Wurtemburg-wide figureread your own land →
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