Yatesville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Yatesville, 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 Yatesville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Yatesville — the short answer
Yatesville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 401 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- 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
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 401 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 Yatesville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Yatesville's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Yatesville
Each reading below is measured for Yatesville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredYatesville runs about 211 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
MeasuredYatesville 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 Yatesville is in
Yatesville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Yatesville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Luzerne County.
What Grows in Yatesville
Every plant below cleared Yatesville's own zone 6b and its 211-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Yatesville?
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 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (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 Yatesville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Yatesville, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Yatesville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Yatesville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CALEX TRUCK SALES INCBrownfields · 1300 ft
- ADHESIVES & CHEMBrownfields · 1700 ft
- NORTHEAST IND COATINGSBrownfields · 1700 ft
- KEYSTONE COCA COLA BOTTLING COToxics Release Inventory · 2500 ft
- KEYSTONE COCA COLA BOTTLING CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- ADHESIVES & CHEMUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- DMHUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- VALLEY DISTRIBUTINGBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- GEORGIA PACIFIC CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- VALLEY DISTR & STORAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- GALLIS SALES SVCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- WYOMING VALLEY MAINTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Yatesville'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 Yatesville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Yatesville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Yatesville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Yatesville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 745 sites within ~10 miles of Yatesville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Yatesville
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 Yatesville average
Your land is one point inside Yatesville
Everything above resolves to Yatesville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 401 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 Yatesville Average
Yatesville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Yatesville
- ●One soil character for all of Yatesville
- ●Frost dates read at Yatesville's scale: Apr 6 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Yatesville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Yatesville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Yatesville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Yatesville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Yatesville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Yatesville average
How we know this about Yatesville
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 Yatesville’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 Yatesville
When does frost risk typically end in Yatesville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Yatesville typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Yatesville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Yatesville 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 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Yatesville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Yatesville sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 20, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Yatesville?
The federal record around Yatesville runs heavier than most — 1,198 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (745), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles 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 Yatesville?
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 Yatesville's scale — its 6b band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Yatesville'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 Yatesville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Yatesville's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 401 acres it covers and 1,198 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Yatesville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Yatesville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Nov 3 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,198 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Yatesville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Yatesville's boundary and the 401 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Yatesville's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Yatesvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Yatesville's 401 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Luzerne County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Luzerne 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 Luzerne County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Yatesville's 401 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Yatesville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 401 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Yatesville-wide figureread your own land →
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