Daleville, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Daleville, 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 Daleville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Daleville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Daleville — the short answer
Daleville, Virginia: USDA zone 7b, about 229 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~229
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Daleville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Daleville's 229-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Daleville
Each reading below is measured for Daleville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDaleville runs about 229 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
MeasuredDaleville 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 Daleville is in
Daleville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Daleville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Botetourt County.
What Grows in Daleville
Every plant below cleared Daleville's own zone 7b and its 229-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Daleville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — 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 Daleville
Spotted lanternfly documented 8 miles from Daleville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Daleville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Daleville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CVS PHARMACY #3336Brownfields · 1300 ft
- OLD IKENBERRY-GARST STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- SHEETZ #665Brownfields · 1800 ft
- Mama DsUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- E W TAYLORUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Lord Botetourt High SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ARCHITECTURAL CONCRETE PRODUCTS INCToxics Release Inventory · 0.8 mi
- Cavalier Food MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Save-X #12 / Clipper #2Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- ROANOKE & BOTETOURT TELEPHONE COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- KROGER #029-364Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- Kroger R 364Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Daleville'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 Daleville.
Total Sites
847
within ~10 miles of Daleville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Daleville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Daleville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Daleville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 55 sites within ~10 miles of Daleville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Daleville
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 Daleville average
Your land is one point inside Daleville
Everything above resolves to Daleville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Daleville Average
Daleville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Daleville
- ●One soil character for all of Daleville
- ●Frost dates read at Daleville's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Daleville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Daleville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Daleville, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Daleville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Daleville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Daleville average
How we know this about Daleville
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 Daleville’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 Daleville
When does frost risk typically end in Daleville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Daleville typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Daleville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Daleville typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 229 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Daleville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Daleville sees about 229 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 27, about 194 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Daleville?
The federal record around Daleville is a meaningful one — 847 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (497), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Daleville?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Daleville's scale — its 7b band and its 229-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Daleville'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 Daleville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Daleville's own scale — its own ~229-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,745 acres it covers and 847 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Daleville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Daleville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 10 and the ~229-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 847 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Daleville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Daleville's boundary and the 2,745 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~229-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Daleville's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Dalevillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Daleville's 2,745 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Botetourt County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Botetourt 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 Botetourt County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Daleville's 2,745 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Daleville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,745 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 Daleville-wide figureread your own land →
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