Woodland, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Woodland, 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 Woodland 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 Woodland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Woodland — the short answer
Woodland, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 801 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 801 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 Woodland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodland's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodland
Each reading below is measured for Woodland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodland runs about 243 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
MeasuredWoodland 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 Woodland is in
Woodland sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodland's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Northampton County is mostly Southeastern Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Woodland
Every plant below cleared Woodland's own zone 8a and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodland?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 17 — 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 Woodland
Spotted lanternfly documented 24 miles from Woodland, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MINUTE MANUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- TIMBERLAKE TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- Unknown USTUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- NO-087 WOODLAND MUNNitrate · 1100 ft
- DUCK THRU FOOD STORE 37Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- E.T. HOLLOWELL FARMS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- FRIENDLY MARKETSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- MILDRED PEEDE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- BOONES MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- VERNON VINSON GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- SLADES GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- PRUDEN'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodland'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 Woodland.
Total Sites
134
within ~10 miles of Woodland
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodland, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 91 sites within ~10 miles of Woodland. 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.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Woodland
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 Woodland average
Your land is one point inside Woodland
Everything above resolves to Woodland as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 801 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 Woodland Average
Woodland Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Woodland
- ●One soil character for all of Woodland
- ●Frost dates read at Woodland's scale: Mar 19 to Nov 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodland's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodland, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodland average
How we know this about Woodland
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 Woodland’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 Woodland
When does frost risk typically end in Woodland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodland typically lands around Mar 19, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Woodland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodland typically arrives around Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 3, so the watching starts about Oct 18 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodland sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 19 through Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 9 to Nov 3, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodland?
The federal record around Woodland shows 134 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (91), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Woodland?
From about Oct 18 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodland's scale — its 8a band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodland'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 Woodland’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Woodland's own scale — its own ~243-day season between 28°F freezes, the 801 acres it covers and 134 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodland's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 19 and Nov 17 and the ~243-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 134 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodland, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodland's boundary and the 801 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Woodland sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Woodlandlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodland's 801 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Northampton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Northampton 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 Northampton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodland's 801 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 801 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Woodland-wide figureread your own land →