Stovall, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Stovall, 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 Stovall lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Stovall — the short answer
Stovall, North Carolina: USDA zone 7b, about 238 days between hard freezes, across 818 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- 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
- ~238
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 818 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 7b is Stovall's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stovall's 238-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stovall
Each reading below is measured for Stovall itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStovall runs about 238 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
MeasuredStovall sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Stovall is in
Stovall sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Stovall's own centroid rather than borrowed from Granville County.
What Grows in Stovall
Every plant below cleared Stovall's own zone 7b and its 238-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Stovall?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (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. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Stovall
Survey cells within 31 miles of Stovall checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 37 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Stovall
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stovall. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TAMMY'S QUICK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- FAMILY GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- J.H. SHOTWELL'S EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- OVERTON'S CONER GROUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CLACKS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- PHILLIPS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- MAE L. CASH GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- NC STATE DPT OF CORRECTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- BEREA MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- DEAN'S SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- TOLER'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- HICKSBORO GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Stovall'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 Stovall.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stovall
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stovall
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Stovall, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 108 sites within ~10 miles of Stovall. 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 Stovall
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 Stovall average
Your land is one point inside Stovall
Everything above resolves to Stovall as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 818 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 Stovall Average
Stovall Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Stovall
- ●One soil character for all of Stovall
- ●Frost dates read at Stovall's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stovall's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Stovall
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Stovall, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Stovall averages can't show:
We read public map data around Stovall — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Stovall average
How we know this about Stovall
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 Stovall’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 Stovall
When does frost risk typically end in Stovall?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stovall typically lands around Mar 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Stovall?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stovall 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 238 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stovall?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stovall sees about 238 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Oct 31, about 203 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stovall?
The federal record around Stovall is a meaningful one — 157 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (108), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Stovall?
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 Stovall's scale — its 7b band and its 238-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stovall'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 Stovall’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Stovall's own scale — its own ~238-day season between 28°F freezes, the 818 acres it covers and 157 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stovall's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stovall's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 14 and the ~238-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 157 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stovall, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stovall's boundary and the 818 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~238-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Stovall's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Stovall 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 Stovall's 818 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Granville County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Granville 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 Granville County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Stovall's 818 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stovall you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 818 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Stovall-wide figureread your own land →
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