Robersonville, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Robersonville, 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 Robersonville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Robersonville — the short answer
Robersonville, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 260 days between hard freezes, across 776 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~260
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 776 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 Robersonville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Robersonville's 260-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Robersonville
Each reading below is measured for Robersonville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRobersonville runs about 260 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredRobersonville 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 Robersonville is in
Robersonville sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Robersonville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Martin County.
What Grows in Robersonville
Every plant below cleared Robersonville's own zone 8a and its 260-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Robersonville?
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 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
Documented around Robersonville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Robersonville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 54 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Robersonville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Robersonville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PUBLIC OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- SPEEDWAY #8683Underground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- NCDSCA DC590001 (WILLIFORD CLEANERS)Brownfields · 700 ft
- CENTRAL OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- VICTORY SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- WHITEHURST GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- PERDUE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- LONNIE JOHNSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- MACK MOBERLY SERV.STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- C & G USED CARS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- WATSON'S GULF SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- ROBERSONVILLE ICE & COAL CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Robersonville'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 Robersonville.
Total Sites
155
within ~10 miles of Robersonville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Robersonville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Robersonville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Robersonville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 111 sites within ~10 miles of Robersonville. 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.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Robersonville
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 Robersonville average
Your land is one point inside Robersonville
Everything above resolves to Robersonville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 776 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 Robersonville Average
Robersonville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Robersonville
- ●One soil character for all of Robersonville
- ●Frost dates read at Robersonville's scale: Mar 12 to Nov 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Robersonville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Robersonville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Robersonville, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Robersonville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Robersonville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Robersonville average
How we know this about Robersonville
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 Robersonville’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 Robersonville
When does frost risk typically end in Robersonville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Robersonville typically lands around Mar 12, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Robersonville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Robersonville typically arrives around Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 13, so the watching starts about Oct 28 — about 260 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Robersonville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Robersonville sees about 260 frost-free days — roughly Mar 12 through Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 2 to Nov 13, about 225 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Robersonville?
The federal record around Robersonville is a meaningful one — 155 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (111), 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 Robersonville?
From about Oct 28 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Robersonville's scale — its 8a band and its 260-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Robersonville'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 Robersonville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Robersonville's own scale — its own ~260-day season between 28°F freezes, the 776 acres it covers and 155 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Robersonville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Robersonville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 12 and Nov 27 and the ~260-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 155 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Robersonville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Robersonville's boundary and the 776 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~260-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Robersonville's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Robersonville 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 Robersonville's 776 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Martin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Martin 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 Martin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Robersonville's 776 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Robersonville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 776 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 Robersonville-wide figureread your own land →
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