Yatesboro, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Yatesboro, 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 Yatesboro lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Yatesboro — the short answer
Yatesboro, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 185 days between hard freezes, across 65 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~185
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 65 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 6a is Yatesboro's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Yatesboro's 185-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Yatesboro
Each reading below is measured for Yatesboro itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredYatesboro runs about 185 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
MeasuredYatesboro sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Yatesboro is in
Yatesboro sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Yatesboro's own centroid rather than borrowed from Armstrong County.
What Grows in Yatesboro
Every plant below cleared Yatesboro's own zone 6a and its 185-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Yatesboro?
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 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Yatesboro
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Yatesboro, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Yatesboro
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Yatesboro. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ALLTEL PA DAYTONUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- B & J SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- SEASON ALL INDUSTRIES INCORPORATEDToxics Release Inventory · 600 ft
- PASSERINI SALES & SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- RANGE RESOURCES APPALACHIAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- VALLEY VILLAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- VILLAGE STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- PASSERINI AUTO SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- DOMINION PNG VALLEY STABrownfields · 1.8 mi
- EGTS - RURAL VALLEY COMPRESSOR STATIONBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- CURLY MOORE CHEVROLETBrownfields · 2.7 mi
- COWANSHANNOCK TWP SPVRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Yatesboro'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 Yatesboro.
Total Sites
173
within ~10 miles of Yatesboro
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Yatesboro
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Yatesboro
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Yatesboro, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 107 sites within ~10 miles of Yatesboro. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Yatesboro
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Yatesboro
Everything above resolves to Yatesboro as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 65 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 Yatesboro Average
Yatesboro Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Yatesboro
- ●One soil character for all of Yatesboro
- ●Frost dates read at Yatesboro's scale: Apr 26 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Yatesboro's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Yatesboro
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Yatesboro, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Yatesboro averages can't show:
We read public map data around Yatesboro — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Yatesboro
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 Yatesboro’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 Yatesboro
When does frost risk typically end in Yatesboro?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Yatesboro typically lands around Apr 26, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Yatesboro?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Yatesboro typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 185 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Yatesboro?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Yatesboro sees about 185 frost-free days — roughly Apr 26 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 17 to Oct 14, about 150 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Yatesboro?
The federal record around Yatesboro is a meaningful one — 173 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (107), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Yatesboro?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Yatesboro's scale — its 6a band and its 185-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Yatesboro'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 Yatesboro’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Yatesboro's own scale — its own ~185-day season between 28°F freezes, the 65 acres it covers and 173 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Yatesboro's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Yatesboro's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 26 and Oct 28 and the ~185-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 173 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Yatesboro, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Yatesboro's boundary and the 65 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~185-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Yatesboro's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Yatesborolydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Yatesboro's 65 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Armstrong County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Armstrong 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 Armstrong County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Yatesboro's 65 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Yatesboro you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 65 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 Yatesboro-wide figureread your own land →
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