Sabillasville, Maryland, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Sabillasville, 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 Sabillasville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Sabillasville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Sabillasville — the short answer
Sabillasville, Maryland: USDA zone 7a, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~214
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Sabillasville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sabillasville's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sabillasville
Each reading below is measured for Sabillasville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSabillasville runs about 214 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
MeasuredSabillasville 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 Sabillasville is in
Sabillasville sits in the Blue Ridge — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sabillasville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Frederick County is mostly Northern Piedmont. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Sabillasville
Every plant below cleared Sabillasville's own zone 7a and its 214-day season. Each card opens that plant's Maryland profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sabillasville?
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 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Sabillasville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Sabillasville, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sabillasville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sabillasville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Bock Oil Co.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Victor Cullen CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- FR Ad 2Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- South Mountain ProspectMining · 1.3 mi
- FR Ad 22Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- GT's Handi-MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- Highfield RMS (GLC-32300)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- Former BP StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- Highfield ArmoryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- CSX Transportation/Highfiled Rail Road CrossingUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT CONTROL OFCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- BOCK OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sabillasville'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 Sabillasville.
Total Sites
401
within ~10 miles of Sabillasville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sabillasville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sabillasville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sabillasville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Sabillasville — CAFO (6 sites) and PFAS (4 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Sabillasville
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 Sabillasville average
Your land is one point inside Sabillasville
Everything above resolves to Sabillasville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Sabillasville Average
Sabillasville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Sabillasville
- ●One soil character for all of Sabillasville
- ●Frost dates read at Sabillasville's scale: Apr 7 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sabillasville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sabillasville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sabillasville, Maryland — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sabillasville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sabillasville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sabillasville average
How we know this about Sabillasville
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 Sabillasville’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 Sabillasville
When does frost risk typically end in Sabillasville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sabillasville typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Sabillasville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sabillasville typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sabillasville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sabillasville sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 24, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sabillasville?
The federal record around Sabillasville is a meaningful one — 401 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (187), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Sabillasville?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sabillasville's scale — its 7a band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sabillasville'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 Sabillasville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sabillasville's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,071 acres it covers and 401 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sabillasville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sabillasville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Nov 7 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 401 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sabillasville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sabillasville's boundary and the 1,071 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~214-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Sabillasville sits in the Blue Ridge — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Sabillasvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sabillasville's 1,071 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Frederick County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Frederick County
- The growing challenges every Maryland grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Maryland
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Frederick County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sabillasville's 1,071 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sabillasville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,071 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Sabillasville-wide figureread your own land →
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