South Weldon, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in South Weldon, 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 South Weldon lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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South Weldon — the short answer
South Weldon, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 278 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 278 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 South Weldon's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against South Weldon's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in South Weldon
Each reading below is measured for South Weldon itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSouth Weldon runs about 243 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
MeasuredSouth Weldon 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 South Weldon is in
South Weldon sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at South Weldon's own centroid rather than borrowed from Halifax County.
What Grows in South Weldon
Every plant below cleared South Weldon's own zone 8a and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in South Weldon?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — 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 South Weldon
Spotted lanternfly documented 12 miles from South Weldon, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near South Weldon
Closest first, within ~10 miles of South Weldon. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HARDEE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- SOUTH WELDON SELF-SERVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- COASTAL LUMBER COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- ELKS OIL COMPANY, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- WARREN'S EASY SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- SCOCO PARKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- WELDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- FRANKLIN BAKING CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- WELDON VENEER CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- WELDON GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- WELDON POLICE DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WELDON HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from South Weldon'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 South Weldon.
Total Sites
351
within ~10 miles of South Weldon
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of South Weldon
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of South Weldon
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around South Weldon, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 271 sites within ~10 miles of South Weldon. 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.
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Your land is one point inside South Weldon
Everything above resolves to South Weldon as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 278 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 South Weldon Average
South Weldon Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across South Weldon
- ●One soil character for all of South Weldon
- ●Frost dates read at South Weldon's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not South Weldon's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Three things about your lot that South Weldon averages can't show:
We read public map data around South Weldon — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about South Weldon
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 South Weldon’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 South Weldon
When does frost risk typically end in South Weldon?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in South Weldon typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in South Weldon?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in South Weldon typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in South Weldon?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, South Weldon sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Nov 4, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in South Weldon?
The federal record around South Weldon is a meaningful one — 351 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (271), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 South Weldon?
From about Oct 19 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at South Weldon's scale — its 8a band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of South Weldon'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 South Weldon’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at South Weldon's own scale — its own ~243-day season between 28°F freezes, the 278 acres it covers and 351 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- South Weldon's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- South Weldon's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 18 and the ~243-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 351 documented contamination sites on the federal record near South Weldon, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- South Weldon's boundary and the 278 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at South Weldon's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of South Weldonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so South Weldon's 278 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Halifax County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Halifax 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 Halifax County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among South Weldon's 278 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of South Weldon you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 278 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 South Weldon-wide figureread your own land →