Climate is temperate and humid. Average annual temperature ranges from 45 to 50 degrees F. and average annual precipitation from 34 to 50 inches usually evenly distributed through the year. Frost free days range from 130 to 170. These are the Bath , Dutchess , Halsey , Hazen , Palmyra , Phelps , and Wassaic soils. Bath, Dutchess, and Wassaic soils formed in glacial till on nearby uplands.
Fredon soils are poorly and somewhat poorly drained.
Runoff is negligible to medium. Permeability is moderate or moderately slow in the solum and moderately rapid or rapid in the 2C horizon. Mostly in woodland. Natural vegetation is mostly red maple, elm, willow, and ash and some sedges and wetland plants. A few small widely scattered areas are cleared and used for growing pasture or cropland.