Yanceyville, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Yanceyville, 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 Yanceyville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Yanceyville — the short answer
Yanceyville, North Carolina: USDA zone 7b, about 231 days between hard freezes, across 4K 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 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~231
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 Yanceyville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Yanceyville's 231-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Yanceyville
Each reading below is measured for Yanceyville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredYanceyville runs about 231 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
MeasuredYanceyville 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 Yanceyville is in
Yanceyville sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Yanceyville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Caswell County.
What Grows in Yanceyville
Every plant below cleared Yanceyville's own zone 7b and its 231-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Yanceyville?
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 9 — 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 Yanceyville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Yanceyville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 42 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Yanceyville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Yanceyville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CS-081Nitrate · 1000 ft
- CS-079Nitrate · 1200 ft
- HUFF'S YANCEYVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- WRENN'S SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- LITTLE'S GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- CS-082Nitrate · 0.5 mi
- COLE CHEVROLET-OLDSMOBILE COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- GUILFORD MILLS, INC. YANCEYVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- YANCEYVILLE MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- TEDDY BEARS VIDEOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- YANCEYVILLE MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- CC&PS, DIV. OF STATE HWY PATROLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Yanceyville'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 Yanceyville.
Total Sites
96
within ~10 miles of Yanceyville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Yanceyville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Yanceyville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Yanceyville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 77 sites within ~10 miles of Yanceyville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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.
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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 Yanceyville average
Your land is one point inside Yanceyville
Everything above resolves to Yanceyville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Yanceyville Average
Yanceyville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Yanceyville
- ●One soil character for all of Yanceyville
- ●Frost dates read at Yanceyville's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Yanceyville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Yanceyville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Yanceyville, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Yanceyville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Yanceyville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Yanceyville average
How we know this about Yanceyville
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 Yanceyville’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 Yanceyville
When does frost risk typically end in Yanceyville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Yanceyville 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 Yanceyville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Yanceyville typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 231 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Yanceyville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Yanceyville sees about 231 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Oct 26, about 196 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Yanceyville?
The federal record around Yanceyville is a meaningful one — 96 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (77), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 Yanceyville?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Yanceyville's scale — its 7b band and its 231-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Yanceyville'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 Yanceyville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Yanceyville's own scale — its own ~231-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,433 acres it covers and 96 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Yanceyville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Yanceyville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 9 and the ~231-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 96 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Yanceyville, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Yanceyville's boundary and the 4,433 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~231-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Yanceyville's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Yanceyville 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 Yanceyville's 4,433 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Caswell County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Caswell 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 Caswell County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Yanceyville's 4,433 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Yanceyville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,433 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 Yanceyville-wide figureread your own land →
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