Baskerville, Virginia, 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.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Baskerville, 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 Baskerville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Baskerville — the short answer
Baskerville, Virginia: USDA zone 7b, about 236 days between hard freezes, across 1K 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 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~236
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Baskerville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Baskerville's 236-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Baskerville
Each reading below is measured for Baskerville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBaskerville runs about 236 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
MeasuredBaskerville 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 Baskerville is in
Baskerville sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Baskerville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mecklenburg County.
What Grows in Baskerville
Every plant below cleared Baskerville's own zone 7b and its 236-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Baskerville?
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 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 14 — 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 Baskerville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Baskerville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 35 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Baskerville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Baskerville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MECKLENBURG COUNTY LANDFILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Triangle Grocery 2Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- BUGGS ISLAND QUARRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- BUCKHORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- BASKERVILLE CORRECTIONAL UNITUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- BASKERVILLE CORRECTIONAL CENTERBrownfields · 3.1 mi
- RIGHT OF WAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- G&G FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- ABANDONED MICROWAVE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- WELLS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- JOHNNIE STIGALL FRMR COUNTRY STORE/ROWUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- U. S. #1 GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Baskerville'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 Baskerville.
Total Sites
173
within ~10 miles of Baskerville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Baskerville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Baskerville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Baskerville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 148 sites within ~10 miles of Baskerville. 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.
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Your land is one point inside Baskerville
Everything above resolves to Baskerville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Baskerville Average
Baskerville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Baskerville
- ●One soil character for all of Baskerville
- ●Frost dates read at Baskerville's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Baskerville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Baskerville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Baskerville, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Baskerville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Baskerville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Baskerville average
How we know this about Baskerville
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 Baskerville’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 Baskerville
When does frost risk typically end in Baskerville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Baskerville 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 Baskerville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Baskerville typically arrives around Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 31, so the watching starts about Oct 15 — about 236 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Baskerville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Baskerville sees about 236 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Oct 31, about 201 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Baskerville?
The federal record around Baskerville is a meaningful one — 173 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (148), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 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 Baskerville?
From about Oct 15 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Baskerville's scale — its 7b band and its 236-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Baskerville'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 Baskerville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Baskerville's own scale — its own ~236-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,372 acres it covers and 173 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Baskerville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Baskerville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 14 and the ~236-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 173 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Baskerville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Baskerville's boundary and the 1,372 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~236-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Baskerville's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Baskerville 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 Baskerville's 1,372 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mecklenburg County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mecklenburg 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 Mecklenburg County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Baskerville's 1,372 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Baskerville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,372 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 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 Baskerville-wide figureread your own land →
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