Badin, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Badin, 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 Badin lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Badin — the short answer
Badin, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 240 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~240
- 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 8a is Badin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Badin's 240-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Badin
Each reading below is measured for Badin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBadin runs about 240 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
MeasuredBadin 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 Badin is in
Badin sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Badin's own centroid rather than borrowed from Stanly County.
What Grows in Badin
Every plant below cleared Badin's own zone 8a and its 240-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Badin?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — 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 Badin
Survey cells within 31 miles of Badin checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 38 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Badin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Badin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BADIN MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- THE CONCORD TELEPHONE COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- 263 COMBAT INFORMATION SYSTEMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- BADIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- NARROWS (NC)Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- WINK MART 207Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- DRY CLEAN EXPRESS ALBEMARLEBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- H&H 66Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- ALCOA - BADIN WORKSBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- ALCOA - BADIN WORKSToxics Release Inventory · 1.4 mi
- STANLY COUNTY COMPOSITE MAINTENANCEBrownfields · 1.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Badin'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 Badin.
Total Sites
263
within ~10 miles of Badin
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Badin
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Badin
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Badin, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Badin — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (20 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Badin
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 Badin
Everything above resolves to Badin 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 Badin Average
Badin Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Badin
- ●One soil character for all of Badin
- ●Frost dates read at Badin's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Badin's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Badin
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Badin, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Badin averages can't show:
We read public map data around Badin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Badin average
How we know this about Badin
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 Badin’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 Badin
When does frost risk typically end in Badin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Badin typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Badin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Badin typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 240 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Badin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Badin sees about 240 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Nov 1, about 205 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Badin?
The federal record around Badin is a meaningful one — 263 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (183), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Badin?
From about Oct 16 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Badin's scale — its 8a band and its 240-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Badin'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 Badin’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Badin's own scale — its own ~240-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,160 acres it covers and 263 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Badin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Badin's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 15 and the ~240-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 263 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Badin, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Badin's boundary and the 1,160 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~240-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Badin's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Badin 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 Badin's 1,160 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Stanly County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Stanly 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 Stanly County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Badin's 1,160 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Badin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,160 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Badin-wide figureread your own land →
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