Edinburg, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Edinburg, 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 Edinburg 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 Edinburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
Edinburg — the short answer
Edinburg, Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 200 days between hard freezes, across 474 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~200
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 474 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 7a is Edinburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Edinburg's 200-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Edinburg
Each reading below is measured for Edinburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEdinburg runs about 200 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
MeasuredEdinburg sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Edinburg is in
Edinburg sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Edinburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Shenandoah County.
What Grows in Edinburg
Every plant below cleared Edinburg's own zone 7a and its 200-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Edinburg?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Edinburg
Spotted lanternfly documented 5 miles from Edinburg, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Edinburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Edinburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LANTZ MILL GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- THARPS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- HAMBURG STORE/COOKS EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- SHENANDOAH TELEPHONE COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- NORTHERN VA VENDINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Big Apple EdinburgUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- EDINBURG MIDDLE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- SHENANDOAH TELEPHONE CO - MAIN OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- USDA-FS-GWNF - EDINBURGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- EDINBURG MOTORS INCBrownfields · 1600 ft
- EDINBURG MOTORS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Edinburg'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 Edinburg.
Total Sites
170
within ~10 miles of Edinburg
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Edinburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Edinburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Edinburg, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 125 sites within ~10 miles of Edinburg. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Edinburg
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 Edinburg average
Your land is one point inside Edinburg
Everything above resolves to Edinburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 474 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 Edinburg Average
Edinburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Edinburg
- ●One soil character for all of Edinburg
- ●Frost dates read at Edinburg's scale: Apr 11 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Edinburg's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Edinburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Edinburg, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Edinburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Edinburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Edinburg average
How we know this about Edinburg
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 Edinburg’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 Edinburg
When does frost risk typically end in Edinburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Edinburg typically lands around Apr 11, 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 May 2.
When is the first frost in Edinburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Edinburg typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 200 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Edinburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Edinburg sees about 200 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 14, about 165 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Edinburg?
The federal record around Edinburg is a meaningful one — 170 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (125), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Edinburg?
From about Sep 28 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 Oct 28 (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 Oct 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Edinburg's scale — its 7a band and its 200-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Edinburg'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 Edinburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Edinburg's own scale — its own ~200-day season between 28°F freezes, the 474 acres it covers and 170 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Edinburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Edinburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Oct 28 and the ~200-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 170 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Edinburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Edinburg's boundary and the 474 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~200-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Edinburg's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Edinburglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Edinburg's 474 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Shenandoah County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Shenandoah 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 Shenandoah County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Edinburg's 474 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Edinburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 474 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 Edinburg-wide figureread your own land →