Chase Crossing, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Chase Crossing, 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 Crossing 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 Crossing — the short answer
Chase Crossing, Virginia: USDA zone 8a, about 259 days between hard freezes, across 530 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~259
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 530 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 8a is Chase Crossing's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Chase Crossing's 259-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Chase Crossing
Each reading below is measured for Chase Crossing itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredChase Crossing runs about 259 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 Crossing sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Crossing is in
Chase Crossing sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Chase Crossing's own centroid rather than borrowed from Accomack County.
What Grows in Chase Crossing
Every plant below cleared Chase Crossing's own zone 8a and its 259-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Chase Crossing?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 29 — 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 Chase Crossing
Survey cells within 31 miles of Chase Crossing checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 38 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Chase Crossing
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Chase Crossing. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Greenbush Service Company IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- Willetts MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- VACANT WAREHOUSE-GROUNDSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- TRUMAN LEWIS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Coards GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- 65K 12Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- ASSOCIATED FARMS, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- JOHNSONS WELDING SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Eastern Shore Community Services BoardUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- Bobs TexacoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- Texaco - RandysUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- PADDOCK AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Chase Crossing'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 Crossing.
Total Sites
168
within ~10 miles of Chase Crossing
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Chase Crossing
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Chase Crossing
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Chase Crossing, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 122 sites within ~10 miles of Chase Crossing. 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 Chase Crossing
Everything above resolves to Chase Crossing as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 530 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 Crossing Average
Chase Crossing Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Chase Crossing
- ●One soil character for all of Chase Crossing
- ●Frost dates read at Chase Crossing's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Chase Crossing's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Three things about your lot that Chase Crossing averages can't show:
We read public map data around Chase Crossing — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Chase Crossing
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 Crossing’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 Crossing
When does frost risk typically end in Chase Crossing?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Chase Crossing typically lands around Mar 15, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Chase Crossing?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Chase Crossing typically arrives around Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 15, so the watching starts about Oct 30 — about 259 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Chase Crossing?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Chase Crossing sees about 259 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Nov 15, about 224 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Chase Crossing?
The federal record around Chase Crossing shows 168 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (122), 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 Chase Crossing?
From about Oct 30 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Chase Crossing's scale — its 8a band and its 259-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Chase Crossing'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 Crossing’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Chase Crossing's own scale — its own ~259-day season between 28°F freezes, the 530 acres it covers and 168 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Chase Crossing's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Chase Crossing's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 15 and Nov 29 and the ~259-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 168 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Chase Crossing, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Chase Crossing's boundary and the 530 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~259-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Chase Crossing's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Chase Crossing 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 Chase Crossing's 530 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Accomack County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Accomack 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 Accomack County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Chase Crossing's 530 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Chase Crossing you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 530 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 Chase Crossing-wide figureread your own land →