Bonnetsville, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Bonnetsville, 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 Bonnetsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bonnetsville — the short answer
Bonnetsville, North Carolina: USDA zone 8b, about 262 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~262
- 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 8b is Bonnetsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bonnetsville's 262-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bonnetsville
Each reading below is measured for Bonnetsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBonnetsville runs about 262 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBonnetsville sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Bonnetsville is in
Bonnetsville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bonnetsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sampson County.
What Grows in Bonnetsville
Every plant below cleared Bonnetsville's own zone 8b and its 262-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bonnetsville?
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 Feb 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
Documented around Bonnetsville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Bonnetsville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 60 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bonnetsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bonnetsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BONNETSVILLE KWIK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- DRAUGHTON'S SUPER STOP 1Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- CUMBERLAND PAVING CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- ROSEBORO FORD INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- ESTECH, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- HONEYCUTT EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- MOHASCO UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- SAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGEBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- SA-116 GW NITRATE SITE 27Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- COHARIE COUNTRY CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- J. E. SINCLAIR & CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- DEACON JONES GMBrownfields · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bonnetsville'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 Bonnetsville.
Total Sites
274
within ~10 miles of Bonnetsville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bonnetsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bonnetsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bonnetsville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Bonnetsville — CAFO (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (18 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Bonnetsville
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 Bonnetsville average
Your land is one point inside Bonnetsville
Everything above resolves to Bonnetsville 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 Bonnetsville Average
Bonnetsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Bonnetsville
- ●One soil character for all of Bonnetsville
- ●Frost dates read at Bonnetsville's scale: Mar 9 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bonnetsville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bonnetsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bonnetsville, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bonnetsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bonnetsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bonnetsville average
How we know this about Bonnetsville
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 Bonnetsville’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 Bonnetsville
When does frost risk typically end in Bonnetsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bonnetsville typically lands around Mar 9, 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 Mar 30.
When is the first frost in Bonnetsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bonnetsville typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 262 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bonnetsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bonnetsville sees about 262 frost-free days — roughly Mar 9 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 30 to Nov 12, about 227 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bonnetsville?
The federal record around Bonnetsville is a meaningful one — 274 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (178), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Bonnetsville?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bonnetsville's scale — its 8b band and its 262-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bonnetsville'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 Bonnetsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bonnetsville's own scale — its own ~262-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,116 acres it covers and 274 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bonnetsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bonnetsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 9 and Nov 26 and the ~262-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 274 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bonnetsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bonnetsville's boundary and the 2,116 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~262-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bonnetsville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Bonnetsville 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 Bonnetsville's 2,116 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sampson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sampson 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 Sampson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bonnetsville's 2,116 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bonnetsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,116 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Bonnetsville-wide figureread your own land →