Woodfin, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Woodfin, 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 Woodfin 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 Woodfin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Woodfin — the short answer
Woodfin, North Carolina: USDA zone 7b, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 6K 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 Woodfin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodfin's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodfin
Each reading below is measured for Woodfin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodfin runs about 215 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
MeasuredWoodfin 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 Woodfin is in
Woodfin sits in the Blue Ridge — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodfin's own centroid rather than borrowed from Buncombe County.
What Grows in Woodfin
Every plant below cleared Woodfin's own zone 7b and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodfin?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — 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 Woodfin
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Woodfin, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodfin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodfin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PACE ANALYTICAL SERVICES LLCBrownfields · 1400 ft
- LANDFILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- WOODFIN TOWN GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- ECONOMY OIL 11Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HOT SPOT 5001Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- RIVERSIDE BUSINESS PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- SCHOOL TRANSPORTATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- PUROLATOR COURIER CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- NEWBRIDGE GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- WOODFIN SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- REDS 66Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- BUNCOMBE COUNTY SCHOOL BUS GARAGEBrownfields · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodfin'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 Woodfin.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodfin
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodfin
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodfin, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Woodfin — Underground Storage Tanks (463 sites) and Superfund (9 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Woodfin
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 Woodfin
Everything above resolves to Woodfin as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K 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 Woodfin Average
Woodfin Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Woodfin
- ●One soil character for all of Woodfin
- ●Frost dates read at Woodfin's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodfin's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodfin
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodfin, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodfin averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodfin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodfin average
How we know this about Woodfin
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 Woodfin’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 Woodfin
When does frost risk typically end in Woodfin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodfin typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Woodfin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodfin typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodfin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodfin sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 19, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodfin?
The federal record around Woodfin is a meaningful one — 720 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (463), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Woodfin?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodfin's scale — its 7b band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodfin'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 Woodfin’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Woodfin's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,981 acres it covers and 720 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodfin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodfin's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 2 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 720 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodfin, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodfin's boundary and the 5,981 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodfin's own centroid, the Blue RidgeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Woodfinlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodfin's 5,981 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Buncombe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Buncombe 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 Buncombe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodfin's 5,981 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodfin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,981 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Woodfin-wide figureread your own land →