Stantonsburg, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Stantonsburg, 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 Stantonsburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Stantonsburg — the short answer
Stantonsburg, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 258 days between hard freezes, across 398 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~258
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 398 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 Stantonsburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stantonsburg's 258-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stantonsburg
Each reading below is measured for Stantonsburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStantonsburg runs about 258 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
MeasuredStantonsburg 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 Stantonsburg is in
Stantonsburg sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Stantonsburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wilson County.
What Grows in Stantonsburg
Every plant below cleared Stantonsburg's own zone 8a and its 258-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Stantonsburg?
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 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — 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 Stantonsburg
Survey cells within 31 miles of Stantonsburg checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 46 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Stantonsburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stantonsburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WL-340 STANTONSBURG MUNNitrate · 450 ft
- WAINWRIGHT SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- STANTONSBURG FRIENDLY MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- TOWN OF STANTONSBURGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- HASTY MART 24Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- EQUIPMENT SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- WOOTENS EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- J W TYSON FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- T.C. TURNAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- L AND L EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- WL-339 STANTONSBURG MUNNitrate · 2600 ft
- WL-150 STANTONSBURG MUNNitrate · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Stantonsburg'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 Stantonsburg.
Total Sites
366
within ~10 miles of Stantonsburg
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stantonsburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stantonsburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Stantonsburg, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 246 sites within ~10 miles of Stantonsburg. 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 Stantonsburg
Everything above resolves to Stantonsburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 398 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 Stantonsburg Average
Stantonsburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Stantonsburg
- ●One soil character for all of Stantonsburg
- ●Frost dates read at Stantonsburg's scale: Mar 13 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stantonsburg's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Stantonsburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Stantonsburg, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Stantonsburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Stantonsburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Stantonsburg average
How we know this about Stantonsburg
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 Stantonsburg’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 Stantonsburg
When does frost risk typically end in Stantonsburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stantonsburg typically lands around Mar 13, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Stantonsburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stantonsburg typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 258 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stantonsburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stantonsburg sees about 258 frost-free days — roughly Mar 13 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 3 to Nov 12, about 223 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stantonsburg?
The federal record around Stantonsburg is a meaningful one — 366 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (246), the nearest Nitrate 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 Stantonsburg?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Stantonsburg's scale — its 8a band and its 258-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stantonsburg'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 Stantonsburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Stantonsburg's own scale — its own ~258-day season between 28°F freezes, the 398 acres it covers and 366 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stantonsburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stantonsburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 13 and Nov 26 and the ~258-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 366 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stantonsburg, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stantonsburg's boundary and the 398 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~258-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Stantonsburg's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Stantonsburg 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 Stantonsburg's 398 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wilson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wilson 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 Wilson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Stantonsburg's 398 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stantonsburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 398 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Stantonsburg-wide figureread your own land →