Philpot, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Philpot, 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 Philpot lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Philpot — the short answer
Philpot, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 232 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~232
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 7a is Philpot's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Philpot's 232-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Philpot
Each reading below is measured for Philpot itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPhilpot runs about 232 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
MeasuredPhilpot sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Philpot is in
Philpot sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Philpot's own centroid rather than borrowed from Daviess County.
What Grows in Philpot
Every plant below cleared Philpot's own zone 7a and its 232-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Philpot?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — 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 Philpot
Survey cells within 31 miles of Philpot checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 107 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Philpot
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Philpot. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HINES PRECISIONS INCToxics Release Inventory · 700 ft
- Circle K #3354Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Fosters GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Mcdonalds ShellUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Bobs Repair ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- F11D0115Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- Petroleum Location BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- G11B0049Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- Franeys Food Mart No 1Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- Millers Mill PlazaUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- Camps Country StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #6264Brownfields · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Philpot'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 Philpot.
Total Sites
547
within ~10 miles of Philpot
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Philpot
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Philpot
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Philpot, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Philpot — PFAS (6 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (374 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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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 Philpot
Everything above resolves to Philpot as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Philpot Average
Philpot Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Philpot
- ●One soil character for all of Philpot
- ●Frost dates read at Philpot's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Philpot's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Philpot
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Philpot, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Philpot averages can't show:
We read public map data around Philpot — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Philpot
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 Philpot’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 Philpot
When does frost risk typically end in Philpot?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Philpot typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Philpot?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Philpot typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 232 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Philpot?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Philpot sees about 232 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Oct 27, about 197 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Philpot?
The federal record around Philpot is a meaningful one — 547 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (374), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.1 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 Philpot?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Philpot's scale — its 7a band and its 232-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Philpot'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 Philpot’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Philpot's own scale — its own ~232-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,102 acres it covers and 547 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Philpot's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Philpot's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 10 and the ~232-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 547 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Philpot, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Philpot's boundary and the 2,102 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~232-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Philpot's own centroid, the Interior River Valleys and HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Philpot checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Philpot's 2,102 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Daviess County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Daviess County
- The growing challenges every Kentucky grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kentucky
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Daviess County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Philpot's 2,102 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Philpot you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,102 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.1 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 Philpot-wide figureread your own land →
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