Yadkin College, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Yadkin College, 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 Yadkin College lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Yadkin College — the short answer
Yadkin College, North Carolina: USDA zone 7b, about 232 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~232
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Yadkin College's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Yadkin College's 232-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Yadkin College
Each reading below is measured for Yadkin College itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredYadkin College runs about 232 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
MeasuredYadkin College 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 Yadkin College is in
Yadkin College sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Yadkin College's own centroid rather than borrowed from Davidson County.
What Grows in Yadkin College
Every plant below cleared Yadkin College's own zone 7b and its 232-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Yadkin College?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Yadkin College
Spotted lanternfly documented 19 miles from Yadkin College, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Yadkin College
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Yadkin College. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NEW COUNTRY FOOD MART- L623Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- B&R AUTOMOTIVEBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- FOREST LAKE PRESERVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- KEITH`S AUTO RESTORATIONBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- LANIER GROUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- JAMES HEATING & A/C INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- RIVER TRAIL MERCANTILEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE LINE COMPANY, LLC - STATION 155Brownfields · 3.3 mi
- CLINTS AUTO PARTS INCBrownfields · 3.4 mi
- T & T CONVENIENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- FARABEE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- DANIELS TIRE SERVICE, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Yadkin College'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 Yadkin College.
Total Sites
436
within ~10 miles of Yadkin College
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Yadkin College
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Yadkin College
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Yadkin College, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Yadkin College — Toxics Release Inventory (50 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (284 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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.
Check your specific parcel in Yadkin College
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 Yadkin College average
Your land is one point inside Yadkin College
Everything above resolves to Yadkin College as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Yadkin College Average
Yadkin College Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Yadkin College
- ●One soil character for all of Yadkin College
- ●Frost dates read at Yadkin College's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Yadkin College's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Yadkin College
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Yadkin College, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Yadkin College averages can't show:
We read public map data around Yadkin College — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Yadkin College average
How we know this about Yadkin College
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 Yadkin College’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 Yadkin College
When does frost risk typically end in Yadkin College?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Yadkin College typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Yadkin College?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Yadkin College typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 232 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Yadkin College?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Yadkin College sees about 232 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Oct 27, about 197 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Yadkin College?
The federal record around Yadkin College is a meaningful one — 436 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (284), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Yadkin College?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Yadkin College's scale — its 7b band and its 232-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Yadkin College'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 Yadkin College’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Yadkin College's own scale — its own ~232-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,844 acres it covers and 436 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Yadkin College's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Yadkin College's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 10 and the ~232-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 436 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Yadkin College, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Yadkin College's boundary and the 1,844 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~232-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Yadkin College's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Yadkin Collegelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Yadkin College's 1,844 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Davidson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Davidson 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 Davidson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Yadkin College's 1,844 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Yadkin College you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,844 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Yadkin College-wide figureread your own land →
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