Salyersville, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Salyersville, 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 Salyersville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Salyersville — the short answer
Salyersville, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 Salyersville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Salyersville's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Salyersville
Each reading below is measured for Salyersville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSalyersville runs about 215 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
MeasuredSalyersville 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 Salyersville is in
Salyersville sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Salyersville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Magoffin County.
What Grows in Salyersville
Every plant below cleared Salyersville's own zone 7a and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Salyersville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Salyersville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Salyersville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 93 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Salyersville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Salyersville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JOY MINING MACHINERY - CONTINENTAL CONVEToxics Release Inventory · 1000 ft
- LOGAN CORPORATION INCBrownfields · 1200 ft
- Action Mart 2Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Magoffin Co Board Of Education Bus GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Oma Spradlin EstateUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- KY May Coal Co IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Younces GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Howard H BackUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Salyersville Somerset OilUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Toms Corner ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Salyer Gulf - Auto TrekUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Salyersville Lumber CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Salyersville'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 Salyersville.
Total Sites
92
within ~10 miles of Salyersville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Salyersville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Salyersville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Salyersville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Salyersville — Underground Storage Tanks (65 sites) and Nitrate (24 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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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 Salyersville
Everything above resolves to Salyersville 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 city 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 Salyersville Average
Salyersville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Salyersville
- ●One soil character for all of Salyersville
- ●Frost dates read at Salyersville's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Salyersville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Salyersville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Salyersville, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Salyersville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Salyersville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Salyersville average
How we know this about Salyersville
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Salyersville’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Salyersville
When does frost risk typically end in Salyersville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Salyersville typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Salyersville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Salyersville typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Salyersville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Salyersville sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 21, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Salyersville?
The federal record around Salyersville is a meaningful one — 92 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (65), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.2 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 Salyersville?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Salyersville's scale — its 7a band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Salyersville'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 Salyersville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Salyersville's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,580 acres it covers and 92 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Salyersville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Salyersville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 4 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 92 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Salyersville, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Salyersville's boundary and the 1,580 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Salyersville's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Salyersville 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 Salyersville's 1,580 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Magoffin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Magoffin 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 Magoffin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Salyersville's 1,580 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Salyersville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,580 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory 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 Salyersville-wide figureread your own land →
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