Landis, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Landis, 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 Landis lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Landis — the short answer
Landis, North Carolina: USDA zone 7b, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~233
- 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 7b is Landis's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Landis's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Landis
Each reading below is measured for Landis itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLandis runs about 233 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
MeasuredLandis sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Landis is in
Landis sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Landis's own centroid rather than borrowed from Rowan County.
What Grows in Landis
Every plant below cleared Landis's own zone 7b and its 233-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Landis?
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 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Landis
Spotted lanternfly documented 13 miles from Landis, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Landis
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Landis. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SANDY ONE STOP #105Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- LINN PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- DOMINION YARN LINN PLTBrownfields · 1300 ft
- COAN EQUIPMENT CO. INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- LANDIS BLDG.Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- LANDIS PUBLIC WORKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- PANTRY 133Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- SMART SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- GARAGE AREAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- CORRIHER PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- CAROLINA CHALKBOARDBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- CITY TIN SHOP INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Landis'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 Landis.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Landis
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Landis
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Landis, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Landis — Superfund (12 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (46 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Landis
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 Landis average
Your land is one point inside Landis
Everything above resolves to Landis 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 Landis Average
Landis Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Landis
- ●One soil character for all of Landis
- ●Frost dates read at Landis's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Landis's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Landis
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Landis, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Landis averages can't show:
We read public map data around Landis — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Landis average
How we know this about Landis
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 Landis’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 Landis
When does frost risk typically end in Landis?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Landis typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Landis?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Landis typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 233 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Landis?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Landis sees about 233 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 27, about 198 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Landis?
The federal record around Landis is a meaningful one — 642 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (436), 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 Landis?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Landis's scale — its 7b band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Landis'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 Landis’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Landis's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,188 acres it covers and 642 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Landis's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Landis's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 10 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 642 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Landis, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Landis's boundary and the 2,188 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~233-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Landis's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Landislydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Landis's 2,188 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Rowan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Rowan 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 Rowan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Landis's 2,188 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Landis you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,188 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 Landis-wide figureread your own land →
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