Winfall, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Winfall, 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 Winfall lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Winfall — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Winfall — the short answer
Winfall, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 265 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 9
- Perquimans County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 29
- Perquimans County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~265
- Perquimans County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Perquimans County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Winfall's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Winfall's 265-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Winfall
Each reading below is measured for Winfall itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWinfall runs about 265 days between hard freezes (read from Perquimans County, the closest normal to Winfall) — 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
MeasuredWinfall 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 Winfall is in
Winfall sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Winfall's own centroid rather than borrowed from Perquimans County.
What Grows in Winfall
Every plant below cleared Winfall's own zone 8a and its 265-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Winfall?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
Documented around Winfall
Survey cells within 31 miles of Winfall checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 34 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Winfall
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Winfall. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LEBANON AGRICORP LOC 35Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- LAYDENS COUNTRY CONVENIENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ALBEMARLE ELECTICE MEMBERS.CORP.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- LARRY'S DRIVE INUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- NC DOT - HERFORD MAINTENANCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- PR-015 PERQUIMANS CO SCHNitrate · 1.1 mi
- D & L SNACK BARUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- HERTFORD EXCHANGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- HERTFORD CAR CAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- WEYERHAEUSER CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- C. EDWARD BUNDYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Winfall'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 Winfall.
Total Sites
132
within ~10 miles of Winfall
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Winfall
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Winfall
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Winfall, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 60 sites within ~10 miles of Winfall. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Winfall
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 Winfall average
Your land is one point inside Winfall
Everything above resolves to Winfall as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Perquimans County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Winfall Average
Winfall Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Winfall
- ●One soil character for all of Winfall
- ●Frost dates read at Winfall's scale: Mar 9 to Nov 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Winfall's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Winfall
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Winfall, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Winfall averages can't show:
We read public map data around Winfall — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Winfall average
How we know this about Winfall
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 Perquimans County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Winfall
When does frost risk typically end in Winfall?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Winfall typically lands around Mar 9, 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 Mar 30.
When is the first frost in Winfall?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Winfall typically arrives around Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 15, so the watching starts about Oct 30 — about 265 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Winfall?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Winfall sees about 265 frost-free days — roughly Mar 9 through Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 30 to Nov 15, about 230 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Winfall?
The federal record around Winfall is a meaningful one — 132 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (60), 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 Winfall?
From about Oct 30 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Winfall's scale — its 8a band and its 265-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Winfall'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 Winfall’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Winfall's own scale — the 1,477 acres it covers and 132 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Winfall's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 132 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Winfall, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Winfall's boundary and the 1,477 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~265-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Winfall's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Winfall checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Winfall has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Perquimans County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Winfall's 1,477 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Perquimans County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Perquimans 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 Perquimans County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Winfall's 1,477 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Winfall you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,477 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 Winfall-wide figureread your own land →