Maysville, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Maysville, 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 Maysville 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 Maysville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Maysville — the short answer
Maysville, North Carolina: USDA zone 8b, about 256 days between hard freezes, across 548 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 14
- Jones County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- Jones County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~256
- Jones County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 548 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 Jones County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Maysville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Maysville's 256-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Maysville
Each reading below is measured for Maysville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsMaysville runs about 256 days between hard freezes (read from Jones County, the closest normal to Maysville) — 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
MeasuredMaysville 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 Maysville is in
Maysville sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Maysville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jones County.
What Grows in Maysville
Every plant below cleared Maysville's own zone 8b and its 256-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Maysville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 14 (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. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Maysville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Maysville 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 Maysville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Maysville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LEY'S TRUCK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- JOE MONETTES GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- EDWARDS UNION 76Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- MAYSVILLE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- HANDY MART 36Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- FIBERGLASS INTERNATIONAL INCBrownfields · 2600 ft
- JOHN R HOLDENUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MELLOTT COMPANY-BELGRADE QUARRYBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- JO-075 LU-S20B NEAR MAYSVILLE, NC SURFICIALNitrate · 3.5 mi
- ADAMS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- PELLETIER OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- MEADOWS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Maysville'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 Maysville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Maysville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Maysville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Maysville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Maysville. 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 Maysville
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 Maysville average
Your land is one point inside Maysville
Everything above resolves to Maysville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 548 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Jones 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 Maysville Average
Maysville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Maysville
- ●One soil character for all of Maysville
- ●Frost dates read at Maysville's scale: Mar 14 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Maysville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Maysville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Maysville, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Maysville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Maysville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Maysville average
How we know this about Maysville
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 Jones 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 Maysville
When does frost risk typically end in Maysville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Maysville typically lands around Mar 14, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Maysville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Maysville 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 256 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Maysville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Maysville sees about 256 frost-free days — roughly Mar 14 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 4 to Nov 11, about 221 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Maysville?
The federal record around Maysville is light — 49 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (28), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Maysville?
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 Maysville's scale — its 8b band and its 256-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Maysville'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 Maysville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Maysville's own scale — the 548 acres it covers and 49 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Maysville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 49 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Maysville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Maysville's boundary and the 548 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~256-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Maysville's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Maysville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Maysville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Jones County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Maysville's 548 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jones County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jones 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 Jones County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Maysville's 548 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Maysville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 548 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Maysville-wide figureread your own land →