Burkeville, 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.
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 Burkeville, 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 Burkeville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Burkeville — the short answer
Burkeville, Virginia: USDA zone 7b, about 227 days between hard freezes, across 641 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- 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
- ~227
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 641 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 Burkeville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Burkeville's 227-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Burkeville
Each reading below is measured for Burkeville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBurkeville runs about 227 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
MeasuredBurkeville 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 Burkeville is in
Burkeville sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Burkeville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Nottoway County.
What Grows in Burkeville
Every plant below cleared Burkeville's own zone 7b and its 227-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Burkeville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (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 Burkeville
Spotted lanternfly documented 17 miles from Burkeville, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Burkeville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Burkeville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Burkeville MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- Burkeville AutoUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Bradshaws RestaurantUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Parker Oil Co., Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Burkeville Plumbing and HeatingUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Luck Stone Burkeville PlantUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Nottoway Correctional CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Adams ConstructionUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Save-U-TimeUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Amelia Petroleum Service Burkeville BranchUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- J.T. MORGANUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Burkeville'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 Burkeville.
Total Sites
102
within ~10 miles of Burkeville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Burkeville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Burkeville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Burkeville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 86 sites within ~10 miles of Burkeville. 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 Burkeville
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 Burkeville
Everything above resolves to Burkeville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 641 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 Burkeville Average
Burkeville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Burkeville
- ●One soil character for all of Burkeville
- ●Frost dates read at Burkeville's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Burkeville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Burkeville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Burkeville
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 Burkeville’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 Burkeville
When does frost risk typically end in Burkeville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Burkeville typically lands around Mar 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Burkeville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Burkeville 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 227 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Burkeville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Burkeville sees about 227 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 26, about 192 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Burkeville?
The federal record around Burkeville shows 102 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (86), 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 Burkeville?
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 Burkeville's scale — its 7b band and its 227-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Burkeville'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 Burkeville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Burkeville's own scale — its own ~227-day season between 28°F freezes, the 641 acres it covers and 102 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Burkeville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Burkeville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 9 and the ~227-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 102 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Burkeville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Burkeville's boundary and the 641 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~227-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Burkeville's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Burkevillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Burkeville's 641 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Nottoway County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Nottoway 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 Nottoway County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Burkeville's 641 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Burkeville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 641 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 Burkeville-wide figureread your own land →
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