Cypress Landing, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Cypress Landing, 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 Cypress Landing lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Cypress Landing — the short answer
Cypress Landing, North Carolina: USDA zone 8b, about 275 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 3
- Beaufort County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 3
- Beaufort County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~275
- Beaufort County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 2K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Beaufort County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Cypress Landing's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cypress Landing's 275-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cypress Landing
Each reading below is measured for Cypress Landing itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsCypress Landing runs about 275 days between hard freezes (read from Beaufort County, the closest normal to Cypress Landing) — 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
MeasuredCypress Landing 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 Cypress Landing is in
Cypress Landing sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Cypress Landing's own centroid rather than borrowed from Beaufort County.
What Grows in Cypress Landing
Every plant below cleared Cypress Landing's own zone 8b and its 275-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cypress Landing?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
Documented around Cypress Landing
Survey cells within 31 miles of Cypress Landing checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 79 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Cypress Landing
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cypress Landing. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CYPRESS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- BO-448 BEAUFORT CO. DISTRICTS VI AND VII-64Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- WHICHARD CAMP GROUNDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- FOUNTAIN POWERBOATS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- FOUNTAIN POWERBOATS INCORPORATEDBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- FOUNTAIN POWERBOATS INCORPORATEDToxics Release Inventory · 1.7 mi
- CRISP GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- BO-247Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- SPEEDWAY #8297Underground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- GOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- CARVER MACHINE WORKS, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- CHOCO MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cypress Landing'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 Cypress Landing.
Total Sites
235
within ~10 miles of Cypress Landing
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cypress Landing
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cypress Landing
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cypress Landing, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Cypress Landing — Superfund (4 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (148 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Cypress Landing
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 Cypress Landing average
Your land is one point inside Cypress Landing
Everything above resolves to Cypress Landing as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Beaufort County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Cypress Landing Average
Cypress Landing Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Cypress Landing
- ●One soil character for all of Cypress Landing
- ●Frost dates read at Cypress Landing's scale: Mar 3 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cypress Landing's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cypress Landing
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cypress Landing, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cypress Landing averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cypress Landing — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cypress Landing average
How we know this about Cypress Landing
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 Beaufort County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Cypress Landing
When does frost risk typically end in Cypress Landing?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cypress Landing typically lands around Mar 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Cypress Landing?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cypress Landing typically arrives around Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 19, so the watching starts about Nov 3 — about 275 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cypress Landing?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cypress Landing sees about 275 frost-free days — roughly Mar 3 through Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 24 to Nov 19, about 240 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cypress Landing?
The federal record around Cypress Landing is a meaningful one — 235 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (148), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Cypress Landing?
From about Nov 3 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 Dec 3 (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 Dec 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cypress Landing's scale — its 8b band and its 275-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cypress Landing'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 Cypress Landing’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Cypress Landing's own scale — the 1,507 acres it covers and 235 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cypress Landing's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 235 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cypress Landing, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cypress Landing's boundary and the 1,507 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~275-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Cypress Landing's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Cypress Landing checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Cypress Landing has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Beaufort County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cypress Landing's 1,507 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Beaufort County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Beaufort 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 Beaufort County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cypress Landing's 1,507 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cypress Landing you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,507 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Cypress Landing-wide figureread your own land →