Wagram, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Wagram, 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 Wagram lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Wagram — the short answer
Wagram, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 255 days between hard freezes, across 932 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~255
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 932 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 Wagram's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wagram's 255-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wagram
Each reading below is measured for Wagram itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWagram runs about 255 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
MeasuredWagram 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 Wagram is in
Wagram sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Wagram's own centroid rather than borrowed from Scotland County.
What Grows in Wagram
Every plant below cleared Wagram's own zone 8a and its 255-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wagram?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — 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 Wagram
Survey cells within 31 miles of Wagram checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 80 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Wagram
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wagram. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FARMER'S MARKET 1Underground Storage Tanks · 100 ft
- WAGRAM EXXON SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- NICS PIC KWIK 3 (NEW)Underground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- NIC'S PIC KWIK 3Underground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- SIMMONS LUMBER CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- MC NEILL'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- BOB STEVENS PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- SCOTLAND PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- TURNPIKE EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- MIDWAY GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- MASSEY'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- MONROE'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wagram'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 Wagram.
Total Sites
221
within ~10 miles of Wagram
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wagram
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wagram
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wagram, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Wagram — Toxics Release Inventory (22 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (146 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.
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Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Wagram
Everything above resolves to Wagram as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 932 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 Wagram Average
Wagram Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Wagram
- ●One soil character for all of Wagram
- ●Frost dates read at Wagram's scale: Mar 11 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wagram's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wagram
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wagram, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wagram averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wagram — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Wagram
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 Wagram’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 Wagram
When does frost risk typically end in Wagram?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wagram typically lands around Mar 11, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Wagram?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wagram typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 255 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wagram?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wagram sees about 255 frost-free days — roughly Mar 11 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 1 to Nov 7, about 220 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wagram?
The federal record around Wagram is a meaningful one — 221 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (146), 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 Wagram?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wagram's scale — its 8a band and its 255-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wagram'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 Wagram’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Wagram's own scale — its own ~255-day season between 28°F freezes, the 932 acres it covers and 221 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wagram's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wagram's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 11 and Nov 21 and the ~255-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 221 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wagram, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wagram's boundary and the 932 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~255-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Wagram's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Wagram 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 Wagram's 932 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Scotland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Scotland 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 Scotland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wagram's 932 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wagram you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 932 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 Wagram-wide figureread your own land →
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