Deltaville, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Deltaville, 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 Deltaville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Deltaville — the short answer
Deltaville, Virginia: USDA zone 8a, about 269 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~269
- 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 8a is Deltaville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Deltaville's 269-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Deltaville
Each reading below is measured for Deltaville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDeltaville runs about 269 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredDeltaville 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 Deltaville is in
Deltaville sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Deltaville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Middlesex County is mostly Southeastern Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Deltaville
Every plant below cleared Deltaville's own zone 8a and its 269-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Deltaville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
Documented around Deltaville
Spotted lanternfly documented 27 miles from Deltaville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Deltaville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Deltaville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Deltaville MarinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- Chris Mart 6Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- 60J 6Nitrate · 2300 ft
- Amburg Food Center (Former)Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Wilsons Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Dozier Deltaville Marine CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Deltaville ExxonUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- COASTAL MARINEBrownfields · 2400 ft
- OOZIER YACHTING CTRSBrownfields · 2400 ft
- Ward Floyd ResidenceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Chesapeake Cove MarinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Norview MarinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Deltaville'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 Deltaville.
Total Sites
130
within ~10 miles of Deltaville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Deltaville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Deltaville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Deltaville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 104 sites within ~10 miles of Deltaville. 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 Deltaville
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 Deltaville average
Your land is one point inside Deltaville
Everything above resolves to Deltaville 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 Deltaville Average
Deltaville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Deltaville
- ●One soil character for all of Deltaville
- ●Frost dates read at Deltaville's scale: Mar 9 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Deltaville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Deltaville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Deltaville, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Deltaville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Deltaville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Deltaville average
How we know this about Deltaville
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 Deltaville’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 Deltaville
When does frost risk typically end in Deltaville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Deltaville typically lands around Mar 9, 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 Mar 30.
When is the first frost in Deltaville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Deltaville typically arrives around Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 19, so the watching starts about Nov 3 — about 269 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Deltaville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Deltaville sees about 269 frost-free days — roughly Mar 9 through Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 30 to Nov 19, about 234 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Deltaville?
The federal record around Deltaville shows 130 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (104), 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 Deltaville?
From about Nov 3 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 Dec 3 (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 Dec 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Deltaville's scale — its 8a band and its 269-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Deltaville'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 Deltaville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Deltaville's own scale — its own ~269-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,596 acres it covers and 130 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Deltaville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Deltaville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 9 and Dec 3 and the ~269-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 130 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Deltaville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Deltaville's boundary and the 2,596 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~269-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Deltaville sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Deltavillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Deltaville's 2,596 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Middlesex County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Middlesex 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 Middlesex County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Deltaville's 2,596 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Deltaville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,596 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 Deltaville-wide figureread your own land →
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