Broadway, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Broadway, 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 Broadway 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 Broadway — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Broadway — the short answer
Broadway, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 256 days between hard freezes, across 828 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~256
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 828 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 Broadway's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Broadway's 256-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Broadway
Each reading below is measured for Broadway itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBroadway runs about 256 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
MeasuredBroadway 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 Broadway is in
Broadway sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Broadway's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Lee County is mostly Piedmont. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Broadway
Every plant below cleared Broadway's own zone 8a and its 256-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Broadway?
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 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 24 — 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 Broadway
Survey cells within 31 miles of Broadway 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 Broadway
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Broadway. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOLLAR GENERAL #9478Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- CIRCLE K 2720144Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- ANDYS AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- JONES GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- BROADWAY GULF SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- YOWS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- SEMINOLE MART 2Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- CIRCLE K 2723300Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- FIRST AND LASTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- SEMINOLE MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- MOENUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- MOEN INC.Brownfields · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Broadway'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 Broadway.
Total Sites
358
within ~10 miles of Broadway
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Broadway
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Broadway
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Broadway, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 36 sites within ~10 miles of Broadway. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Broadway
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 Broadway average
Your land is one point inside Broadway
Everything above resolves to Broadway as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 828 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 Broadway Average
Broadway Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Broadway
- ●One soil character for all of Broadway
- ●Frost dates read at Broadway's scale: Mar 13 to Nov 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Broadway's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Broadway
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Broadway, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Broadway averages can't show:
We read public map data around Broadway — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Broadway average
How we know this about Broadway
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 Broadway’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 Broadway
When does frost risk typically end in Broadway?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Broadway typically lands around Mar 13, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Broadway?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Broadway typically arrives around Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 10, so the watching starts about Oct 25 — about 256 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Broadway?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Broadway sees about 256 frost-free days — roughly Mar 13 through Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 3 to Nov 10, about 221 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Broadway?
The federal record around Broadway is a meaningful one — 358 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (216), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Broadway?
From about Oct 25 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Broadway's scale — its 8a band and its 256-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Broadway'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 Broadway’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Broadway's own scale — its own ~256-day season between 28°F freezes, the 828 acres it covers and 358 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Broadway's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Broadway's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 13 and Nov 24 and the ~256-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 358 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Broadway, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Broadway's boundary and the 828 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~256-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Broadway sits in the Southeastern Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Broadway 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 Broadway's 828 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lee 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 Lee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Broadway's 828 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Broadway you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 828 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Broadway-wide figureread your own land →