Chase City, 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.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Chase City, 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 Chase City lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Chase City — the short answer
Chase City, 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 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- 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 Chase City's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Chase City's 236-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Chase City
Each reading below is measured for Chase City itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredChase City 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
MeasuredChase City 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 Chase City is in
Chase City sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Chase City's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mecklenburg County.
What Grows in Chase City
Every plant below cleared Chase City'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 Chase City?
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 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — 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 Chase City
Spotted lanternfly documented 22 miles from Chase City, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Chase City
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Chase City. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MIKES GLASS & BODY SHOPBrownfields · 75 ft
- MONROE LEWIS TREE COUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- REAMYS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Larry Scott WinnUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- KJS MINI MART #45Underground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- CHESAPEAKE CORP (AREA 3)Underground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- AYLOR DELMA T/A AYLORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- BAYNES GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- MCGINNIS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- CONTINENTAL FOREST INVESTMENTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Estes Express LinesUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- Town of Chase City Public Works DepartmentUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Chase City'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 Chase City.
Total Sites
121
within ~10 miles of Chase City
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Chase City
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Chase City
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Chase City, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 109 sites within ~10 miles of Chase City. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Chase City
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 Chase City average
Your land is one point inside Chase City
Everything above resolves to Chase City 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 Chase City Average
Chase City Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Chase City
- ●One soil character for all of Chase City
- ●Frost dates read at Chase City's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Chase City's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Chase City
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Chase City, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Chase City averages can't show:
We read public map data around Chase City — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Chase City average
How we know this about Chase City
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 Chase City’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 Chase City
When does frost risk typically end in Chase City?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Chase City typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Chase City?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Chase City typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 236 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Chase City?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Chase City sees about 236 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 30, about 201 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Chase City?
The federal record around Chase City shows 121 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (109), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Chase City?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Chase City's scale — its 7b band and its 236-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Chase City'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 Chase City’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Chase City's own scale — its own ~236-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,400 acres it covers and 121 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Chase City's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Chase City's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 13 and the ~236-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 121 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Chase City, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Chase City's boundary and the 1,400 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 Chase City's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Chase Citylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Chase City's 1,400 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 Chase City's 1,400 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Chase City you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,400 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Chase City-wide figureread your own land →
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