Fairview Beach, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, 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 Fairview Beach, 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 Fairview Beach 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 Fairview Beach — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Fairview Beach — the short answer
Fairview Beach, Virginia: USDA zone 7b, about 247 days between hard freezes, across 186 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~247
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 186 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 Fairview Beach's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fairview Beach's 247-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fairview Beach
Each reading below is measured for Fairview Beach itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFairview Beach runs about 247 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
MeasuredFairview Beach 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 Fairview Beach is in
Fairview Beach sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Fairview Beach's own centroid rather than borrowed from King George County.
What Grows in Fairview Beach
Every plant below cleared Fairview Beach's own zone 7b and its 247-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fairview Beach?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — 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 Fairview Beach
Spotted lanternfly documented 10 miles from Fairview Beach, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Fairview Beach
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fairview Beach. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FAIRVIEW BEACH MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- SEIBERTS KING GEORGE TEXACOBrownfields · 800 ft
- Eight Street Pump Station PS-3Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- MALONE SCHOOLERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Crabhouse Pump Station PS-2Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Fairview Beach Plant WWTP PS-4Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Fairview Beach Yacht Club IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- TRUSTED AUTO PARTS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANYBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- IGO STORE (CLOSED)Underground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- Waugh Point Marina IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- King George CitgoUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Presidential Village WWTP PS-5Underground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fairview Beach'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 Fairview Beach.
Total Sites
116
within ~10 miles of Fairview Beach
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fairview Beach
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fairview Beach
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fairview Beach, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 81 sites within ~10 miles of Fairview Beach. 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 Fairview Beach
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 Fairview Beach average
Your land is one point inside Fairview Beach
Everything above resolves to Fairview Beach as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 186 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 Fairview Beach Average
Fairview Beach Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Fairview Beach
- ●One soil character for all of Fairview Beach
- ●Frost dates read at Fairview Beach's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fairview Beach's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fairview Beach
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fairview Beach, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fairview Beach averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fairview Beach — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fairview Beach average
How we know this about Fairview Beach
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 Fairview Beach’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 Fairview Beach
When does frost risk typically end in Fairview Beach?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fairview Beach typically lands around Mar 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Fairview Beach?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fairview Beach typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 247 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fairview Beach?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fairview Beach sees about 247 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Nov 4, about 212 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fairview Beach?
The federal record around Fairview Beach shows 116 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (81), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Fairview Beach?
From about Oct 19 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fairview Beach's scale — its 7b band and its 247-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fairview Beach'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 Fairview Beach’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Fairview Beach's own scale — its own ~247-day season between 28°F freezes, the 186 acres it covers and 116 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fairview Beach's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fairview Beach's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 18 and the ~247-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 116 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fairview Beach, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fairview Beach's boundary and the 186 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~247-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Fairview Beach's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Fairview Beachlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Fairview Beach's 186 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom King George County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom King George 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 King George County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fairview Beach's 186 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fairview Beach you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 186 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Fairview Beach-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across VirginiaFairview Beach sits outside our named growing regions, so Virginia as a whole is its closest context here.
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