Eastville, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Eastville, 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 Eastville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Eastville — the short answer
Eastville, Virginia: USDA zone 8a, about 274 days between hard freezes, across 503 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~274
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 503 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 Eastville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eastville's 274-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eastville
Each reading below is measured for Eastville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEastville runs about 274 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
MeasuredEastville 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 Eastville is in
Eastville sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eastville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Northampton County.
What Grows in Eastville
Every plant below cleared Eastville's own zone 8a and its 274-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eastville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
Documented around Eastville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Eastville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 33 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Eastville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eastville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Northampton County Public School Bus GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- Shore Stop #33-218 EastvilleUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- BELL ATLANTICUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- MARGARETS GIFTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- ELLIOTTS AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- H L SHREAVES SERV STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- VDOT Eastville Area HeadquartersUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Cape Charles VortacUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Northampton CountyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- WARDS BODY SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- NANAK OIL CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- VDOT EASTVILLE AREA HQBrownfields · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eastville'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 Eastville.
Total Sites
119
within ~10 miles of Eastville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eastville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eastville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eastville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Eastville — Underground Storage Tanks (80 sites) and Nitrate (32 sites). 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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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 Eastville
Everything above resolves to Eastville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 503 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 Eastville Average
Eastville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Eastville
- ●One soil character for all of Eastville
- ●Frost dates read at Eastville's scale: Mar 7 to Dec 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eastville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eastville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eastville, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eastville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eastville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eastville average
How we know this about Eastville
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 Eastville’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 Eastville
When does frost risk typically end in Eastville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eastville typically lands around Mar 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Eastville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eastville typically arrives around Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 22, so the watching starts about Nov 6 — about 274 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eastville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eastville sees about 274 frost-free days — roughly Mar 7 through Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 28 to Nov 22, about 239 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eastville?
The federal record around Eastville shows 119 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (80), 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 Eastville?
From about Nov 6 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eastville's scale — its 8a band and its 274-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eastville'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 Eastville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Eastville's own scale — its own ~274-day season between 28°F freezes, the 503 acres it covers and 119 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eastville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Eastville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 7 and Dec 6 and the ~274-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 119 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eastville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eastville's boundary and the 503 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~274-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Eastville's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Eastville 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 Eastville's 503 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Northampton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Northampton 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 Northampton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eastville's 503 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eastville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 503 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 Eastville-wide figureread your own land →