Amelia Court House, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Amelia Court House, 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 Amelia Court House lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Amelia Court House — the short answer
Amelia Court House, Virginia: USDA zone 7b, about 218 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~218
- 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 Amelia Court House's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Amelia Court House's 218-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Amelia Court House
Each reading below is measured for Amelia Court House itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAmelia Court House runs about 218 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
MeasuredAmelia Court House 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 Amelia Court House is in
Amelia Court House sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Amelia Court House's own centroid rather than borrowed from Amelia County.
What Grows in Amelia Court House
Every plant below cleared Amelia Court House's own zone 7b and its 218-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Amelia Court House?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Amelia Court House
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Amelia Court House, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Amelia Court House
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Amelia Court House. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ANDERSON BROTHERS LUMBER COMPANY INCBrownfields · 950 ft
- ANDERSON BROTHERS LUMBER COMPANY INCToxics Release Inventory · 950 ft
- Anderson Brothers Lumber Company IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- Amelia Lumber Company IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Jims AutoUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- THE AMELIA LUMBER COMPANY, INCORPORATEDToxics Release Inventory · 2400 ft
- THE AMELIA LUMBER COMPANY, INCORPORATEDBrownfields · 2400 ft
- GOODMAN TRUCK & TRACTOR INC.Brownfields · 2400 ft
- Amelia County Parking LotUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Scott Pallets IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Goodman Truck and Tractor Company IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Amelia County School Bus ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Amelia Court House'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 Amelia Court House.
Total Sites
85
within ~10 miles of Amelia Court House
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Amelia Court House
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Amelia Court House
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Amelia Court House, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Amelia Court House — Mining (9 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (57 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
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.
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Your land is one point inside Amelia Court House
Everything above resolves to Amelia Court House 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 Amelia Court House Average
Amelia Court House Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Amelia Court House
- ●One soil character for all of Amelia Court House
- ●Frost dates read at Amelia Court House's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Amelia Court House's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Amelia Court House
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Amelia Court House, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Amelia Court House averages can't show:
We read public map data around Amelia Court House — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Amelia Court House average
How we know this about Amelia Court House
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 Amelia Court House’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 Amelia Court House
When does frost risk typically end in Amelia Court House?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Amelia Court House typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Amelia Court House?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Amelia Court House typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 218 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Amelia Court House?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Amelia Court House sees about 218 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 21, about 183 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Amelia Court House?
The federal record around Amelia Court House shows 85 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (57), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Amelia Court House?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Amelia Court House's scale — its 7b band and its 218-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Amelia Court House'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 Amelia Court House’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Amelia Court House's own scale — its own ~218-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,411 acres it covers and 85 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Amelia Court House's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Amelia Court House's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 4 and the ~218-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 85 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Amelia Court House, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Amelia Court House's boundary and the 2,411 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~218-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Amelia Court House's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Amelia Court Houselydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Amelia Court House's 2,411 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Amelia County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Amelia County
- The growing challenges every Virginia grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Virginia
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Amelia County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Amelia Court House's 2,411 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Amelia Court House you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,411 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Amelia Court House-wide figureread your own land →
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