Ansonville, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Ansonville, 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 Ansonville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Ansonville — the short answer
Ansonville, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 247 days between hard freezes, across 941 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~247
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 941 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 8a is Ansonville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ansonville's 247-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ansonville
Each reading below is measured for Ansonville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAnsonville runs about 247 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
MeasuredAnsonville sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Ansonville is in
Ansonville sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Ansonville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Anson County.
What Grows in Ansonville
Every plant below cleared Ansonville's own zone 8a and its 247-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ansonville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — 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 Ansonville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Ansonville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 48 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Ansonville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ansonville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PREMIERE FIBERS INCBrownfields · 600 ft
- EXPRESS LANE PETROUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- WILLIAM LEE GRAIN BINSUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- JACKSON'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- COMMUNITY GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- SAMUEL DURHAM SESSIONSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- ANSON COUNTY AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- ANSONVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- AN-009Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- PASTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INCBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- AN-010Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- PH3 LABORATORIES INCBrownfields · 3.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ansonville'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 Ansonville.
Total Sites
182
within ~10 miles of Ansonville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ansonville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ansonville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ansonville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Ansonville — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (136 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.
Check your specific parcel in Ansonville
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 Ansonville
Everything above resolves to Ansonville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 941 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 Ansonville Average
Ansonville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Ansonville
- ●One soil character for all of Ansonville
- ●Frost dates read at Ansonville's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ansonville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Ansonville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Ansonville, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Ansonville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Ansonville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Ansonville
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 Ansonville’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 Ansonville
When does frost risk typically end in Ansonville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ansonville typically lands around Mar 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Ansonville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ansonville typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 247 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ansonville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ansonville sees about 247 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Nov 4, about 212 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ansonville?
The federal record around Ansonville is a meaningful one — 182 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (136), the nearest Brownfields 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 Ansonville?
From about Oct 19 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ansonville's scale — its 8a band and its 247-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ansonville'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 Ansonville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Ansonville's own scale — its own ~247-day season between 28°F freezes, the 941 acres it covers and 182 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ansonville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Ansonville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 18 and the ~247-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 182 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ansonville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ansonville's boundary and the 941 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~247-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ansonville's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Ansonville 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 Ansonville's 941 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Anson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Anson County
- The growing challenges every North Carolina grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom North Carolina
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Anson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Ansonville's 941 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ansonville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 941 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Ansonville-wide figureread your own land →
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