Lewiston Woodville, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Lewiston Woodville, 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 Lewiston Woodville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lewiston Woodville — the short answer
Lewiston Woodville, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 249 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~249
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Lewiston Woodville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lewiston Woodville's 249-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lewiston Woodville
Each reading below is measured for Lewiston Woodville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLewiston Woodville runs about 249 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
MeasuredLewiston Woodville 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 Lewiston Woodville is in
Lewiston Woodville sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lewiston Woodville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bertie County.
What Grows in Lewiston Woodville
Every plant below cleared Lewiston Woodville's own zone 8a and its 249-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lewiston Woodville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — 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 Lewiston Woodville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Lewiston Woodville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 37 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lewiston Woodville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lewiston Woodville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LEWISTON AUTO SUPPLY, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- RED APPLE MARKET 6Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- DUCK THRU FOOD STORE 26Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- FOOD MART 2Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- LEWISTON GARAGE & USED CARS, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- FORMER J B BOND SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- LOUISIANA PACIFIC CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- PEANUT BELT RESEARCH STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- LEWISTON GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- PERDUE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- GEORGE & BOBS PLACEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- WOODVILLE SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lewiston Woodville'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 Lewiston Woodville.
Total Sites
58
within ~10 miles of Lewiston Woodville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lewiston Woodville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lewiston Woodville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lewiston Woodville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 44 sites within ~10 miles of Lewiston Woodville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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Your land is one point inside Lewiston Woodville
Everything above resolves to Lewiston Woodville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Lewiston Woodville Average
Lewiston Woodville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Lewiston Woodville
- ●One soil character for all of Lewiston Woodville
- ●Frost dates read at Lewiston Woodville's scale: Mar 17 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lewiston Woodville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lewiston Woodville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lewiston Woodville, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lewiston Woodville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lewiston Woodville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lewiston Woodville average
How we know this about Lewiston Woodville
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 Lewiston Woodville’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 Lewiston Woodville
When does frost risk typically end in Lewiston Woodville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lewiston Woodville typically lands around Mar 17, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Lewiston Woodville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lewiston Woodville typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 249 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lewiston Woodville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lewiston Woodville sees about 249 frost-free days — roughly Mar 17 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 7 to Nov 7, about 214 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lewiston Woodville?
The federal record around Lewiston Woodville shows 58 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (44), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lewiston Woodville?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lewiston Woodville's scale — its 8a band and its 249-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lewiston Woodville'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 Lewiston Woodville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lewiston Woodville's own scale — its own ~249-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,252 acres it covers and 58 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lewiston Woodville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lewiston Woodville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 17 and Nov 21 and the ~249-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 58 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lewiston Woodville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lewiston Woodville's boundary and the 1,252 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~249-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lewiston Woodville's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Lewiston Woodville 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 Lewiston Woodville's 1,252 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bertie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bertie 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 Bertie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lewiston Woodville's 1,252 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lewiston Woodville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,252 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 Lewiston Woodville-wide figureread your own land →
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