Mayodan, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Mayodan, 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 Mayodan lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mayodan — the short answer
Mayodan, North Carolina: USDA zone 7b, about 229 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~229
- 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 Mayodan's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mayodan's 229-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mayodan
Each reading below is measured for Mayodan itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMayodan runs about 229 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
MeasuredMayodan 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 Mayodan is in
Mayodan sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mayodan's own centroid rather than borrowed from Rockingham County.
What Grows in Mayodan
Every plant below cleared Mayodan's own zone 7b and its 229-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mayodan?
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 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — 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 Mayodan
Spotted lanternfly documented 21 miles from Mayodan, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Mayodan
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mayodan. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NUNN'S GAS MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- THOMPSON EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- TOWN OF MAYODAN PUBLIC WK DPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MAYODAN MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SUNRISE 4Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- HASSEL F. PRIDDYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- S K MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- EDDIES'S EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- NEW SYSTEM CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- COY SMITHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- STURM, RUGER & COMPANY INC.Brownfields · 1.0 mi
- ABANDONED GAS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mayodan'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 Mayodan.
Total Sites
210
within ~10 miles of Mayodan
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
16 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mayodan
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mayodan
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mayodan, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Mayodan — Underground Storage Tanks (168 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (16 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Mayodan
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Mayodan
Everything above resolves to Mayodan 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 Mayodan Average
Mayodan Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Mayodan
- ●One soil character for all of Mayodan
- ●Frost dates read at Mayodan's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mayodan's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mayodan
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mayodan, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mayodan averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mayodan — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mayodan average
How we know this about Mayodan
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 Mayodan’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 Mayodan
When does frost risk typically end in Mayodan?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mayodan typically lands around Mar 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Mayodan?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mayodan typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 229 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mayodan?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mayodan sees about 229 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 26, about 194 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mayodan?
The federal record around Mayodan is a meaningful one — 210 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (168), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Mayodan?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mayodan's scale — its 7b band and its 229-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mayodan'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 Mayodan’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Mayodan's own scale — its own ~229-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,841 acres it covers and 210 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mayodan's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mayodan's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 9 and the ~229-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 210 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mayodan, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mayodan's boundary and the 1,841 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~229-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mayodan's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Mayodanlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mayodan's 1,841 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Rockingham County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Rockingham 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 Rockingham County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mayodan's 1,841 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mayodan you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,841 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Mayodan-wide figureread your own land →
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