Farmville, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Farmville, 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 Farmville 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 Farmville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Farmville — the short answer
Farmville, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 258 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 12
- Pitt County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- Pitt County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~258
- Pitt 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 Pitt County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Farmville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Farmville's 258-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Farmville
Each reading below is measured for Farmville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsFarmville runs about 258 days between hard freezes (read from Pitt County, the closest normal to Farmville) — 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
MeasuredFarmville 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 Farmville is in
Farmville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Farmville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Pitt County is mostly Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Farmville
Every plant below cleared Farmville's own zone 8a and its 258-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Farmville?
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 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 25 — 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 Farmville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Farmville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 59 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Farmville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Farmville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RONALD A. HUGHESUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- KINGS CONVENIENT MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- PI-218 FARMVILLE MUNNitrate · 1100 ft
- SOUTHERN STATES FARMVILLE FEEDToxics Release Inventory · 1100 ft
- MESTEK INCORPORATEDBrownfields · 1100 ft
- MESTEK INCORPORATEDToxics Release Inventory · 1100 ft
- PITT CO TRANS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- PITT CO TRANSPORTATION INCORPORATEDBrownfields · 1300 ft
- PUBLIC LIBRARYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- HAWKINS SELF SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- NICHOLS SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- LANGS X RDS FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Farmville'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 Farmville.
Total Sites
314
within ~10 miles of Farmville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Farmville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Farmville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Farmville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 192 sites within ~10 miles of Farmville. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Farmville
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 Farmville average
Your land is one point inside Farmville
Everything above resolves to Farmville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Pitt 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 Farmville Average
Farmville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Farmville
- ●One soil character for all of Farmville
- ●Frost dates read at Farmville's scale: Mar 12 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Farmville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Farmville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Farmville, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Farmville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Farmville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Farmville average
How we know this about Farmville
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 Pitt 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 Farmville
When does frost risk typically end in Farmville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Farmville typically lands around Mar 12, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Farmville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Farmville typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 258 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Farmville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Farmville sees about 258 frost-free days — roughly Mar 12 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 2 to Nov 11, about 223 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Farmville?
The federal record around Farmville is a meaningful one — 314 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (192), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Farmville?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Farmville's scale — its 8a band and its 258-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Farmville'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 Farmville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Farmville's own scale — the 2,050 acres it covers and 314 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Farmville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 314 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Farmville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Farmville's boundary and the 2,050 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~258-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Farmville sits in the Southeastern Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Farmville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Farmville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Pitt County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Farmville's 2,050 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pitt County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pitt 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 Pitt County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Farmville's 2,050 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Farmville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,050 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Farmville-wide figureread your own land →
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