Enon, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Enon, 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 Enon lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Enon — the short answer
Enon, Virginia: USDA zone 7b, about 235 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~235
- 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 Enon's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Enon's 235-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Enon
Each reading below is measured for Enon itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEnon runs about 235 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
MeasuredEnon 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 Enon is in
Enon sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Enon's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Chesterfield County is mostly Piedmont. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Enon
Every plant below cleared Enon's own zone 7b and its 235-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Enon?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 14 — 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 Enon
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Enon, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Enon
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Enon. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- C W Setchel Excavating IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- Enon Elementary SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- CHESTERFIELD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT (ENON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL)Brownfields · 1200 ft
- Johnsons Creek Pump StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Route 10 Enterprises LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Enon ChevronUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Raceway 6966Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CHESTERFIELD COUNTY - PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING CENTER - ENON POLICE RANGEBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- Stop N Save BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- P F2 VA LLCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- Anchor Point MarinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- ATWATER RD PUMPING STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Enon'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 Enon.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Enon
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Enon
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Enon, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 84 sites within ~10 miles of Enon. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Enon
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 Enon average
Your land is one point inside Enon
Everything above resolves to Enon 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 Enon Average
Enon Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Enon
- ●One soil character for all of Enon
- ●Frost dates read at Enon's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Enon's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Enon
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Enon, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Enon averages can't show:
We read public map data around Enon — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Enon average
How we know this about Enon
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 Enon’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 Enon
When does frost risk typically end in Enon?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Enon typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Enon?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Enon typically arrives around Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 31, so the watching starts about Oct 15 — about 235 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Enon?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Enon sees about 235 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Oct 31, about 200 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Enon?
The federal record around Enon is a meaningful one — 951 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (584), 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 Enon?
From about Oct 15 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Enon's scale — its 7b band and its 235-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Enon'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 Enon’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Enon's own scale — its own ~235-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,759 acres it covers and 951 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Enon's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Enon's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 14 and the ~235-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 951 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Enon, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Enon's boundary and the 2,759 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~235-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Enon sits in the Southeastern Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Enonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Enon's 2,759 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Chesterfield County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Enon's 2,759 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Enon you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,759 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 Enon-wide figureread your own land →
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