Ramseur, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Ramseur, 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 Ramseur 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 Ramseur — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Ramseur — the short answer
Ramseur, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 241 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~241
- 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 Ramseur's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ramseur's 241-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ramseur
Each reading below is measured for Ramseur itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRamseur runs about 241 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
MeasuredRamseur 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 Ramseur is in
Ramseur sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Ramseur's own centroid rather than borrowed from Randolph County.
What Grows in Ramseur
Every plant below cleared Ramseur's own zone 8a and its 241-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ramseur?
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 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 14 — 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 Ramseur
Spotted lanternfly documented 24 miles from Ramseur, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Ramseur
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ramseur. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HAN-DEE HUGO'S 201Underground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- QUICK QUALITY 2Underground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- BASSETT FURNITURE INDUSTRIESToxics Release Inventory · 750 ft
- COBLE DAIRY PRODUCTS INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- LANGLEY GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BURGESS GARBAGE SERV.Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- RANDOLPH SALESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- BURGESS GARBAGE SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- RAMSEUR THRIFT CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- THE PANTRY 156Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- MATLAB INCORPORATED RAMSEUR FACILITYBrownfields · 1900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ramseur'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 Ramseur.
Total Sites
379
within ~10 miles of Ramseur
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ramseur
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ramseur
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ramseur, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Ramseur — Toxics Release Inventory (31 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (236 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Ramseur
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 Ramseur average
Your land is one point inside Ramseur
Everything above resolves to Ramseur 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 Ramseur Average
Ramseur Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Ramseur
- ●One soil character for all of Ramseur
- ●Frost dates read at Ramseur's scale: Mar 18 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ramseur's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Ramseur
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Ramseur, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Ramseur averages can't show:
We read public map data around Ramseur — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ramseur average
How we know this about Ramseur
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 Ramseur’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 Ramseur
When does frost risk typically end in Ramseur?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ramseur typically lands around Mar 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Ramseur?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ramseur typically arrives around Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 31, so the watching starts about Oct 15 — about 241 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ramseur?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ramseur sees about 241 frost-free days — roughly Mar 18 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 8 to Oct 31, about 206 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ramseur?
The federal record around Ramseur is a meaningful one — 379 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (236), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Ramseur?
From about Oct 15 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ramseur's scale — its 8a band and its 241-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ramseur'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 Ramseur’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Ramseur's own scale — its own ~241-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,281 acres it covers and 379 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ramseur's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Ramseur's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 18 and Nov 14 and the ~241-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 379 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ramseur, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ramseur's boundary and the 1,281 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~241-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ramseur's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Ramseurlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Ramseur's 1,281 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Randolph County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Randolph 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 Randolph County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Ramseur's 1,281 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ramseur you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,281 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 Ramseur-wide figureread your own land →
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