Hallwood, 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.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Hallwood, 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 Hallwood lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hallwood — the short answer
Hallwood, Virginia: USDA zone 8a, about 256 days between hard freezes, across 151 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~256
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 151 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 Hallwood's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hallwood's 256-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hallwood
Each reading below is measured for Hallwood itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHallwood runs about 256 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
MeasuredHallwood 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 Hallwood is in
Hallwood sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hallwood's own centroid rather than borrowed from Accomack County.
What Grows in Hallwood
Every plant below cleared Hallwood's own zone 8a and its 256-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hallwood?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 28 — 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 Hallwood
Survey cells within 31 miles of Hallwood 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 Hallwood
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hallwood. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DICKERSON GERTRUDEUnderground Storage Tanks · 50 ft
- YOUNGS TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 100 ft
- JOHN W. TAYLOR PACKING COMPANY, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 100 ft
- 66M 5Nitrate · 850 ft
- JOHN W TAYLOR PACKING CO, INCToxics Release Inventory · 1300 ft
- CHI KIM FARMCAFO · 0.5 mi
- GLADDING GARLAND JUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- 66M 13Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- 66M 12Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- 66M 11Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- 66M 10Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- 66M 9Nitrate · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hallwood'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 Hallwood.
Total Sites
167
within ~10 miles of Hallwood
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hallwood
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hallwood
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hallwood, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 29 sites within ~10 miles of Hallwood. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Hallwood
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 Hallwood average
Your land is one point inside Hallwood
Everything above resolves to Hallwood as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 151 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 Hallwood Average
Hallwood Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Hallwood
- ●One soil character for all of Hallwood
- ●Frost dates read at Hallwood's scale: Mar 17 to Nov 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hallwood's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hallwood
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hallwood, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hallwood averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hallwood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hallwood average
How we know this about Hallwood
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 Hallwood’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 Hallwood
When does frost risk typically end in Hallwood?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hallwood typically lands around Mar 17, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Hallwood?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hallwood typically arrives around Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 14, so the watching starts about Oct 29 — about 256 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hallwood?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hallwood sees about 256 frost-free days — roughly Mar 17 through Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 7 to Nov 14, about 221 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hallwood?
The federal record around Hallwood is a meaningful one — 167 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (90), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Hallwood?
From about Oct 29 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 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 Nov 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hallwood's scale — its 8a band and its 256-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hallwood'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 Hallwood’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hallwood's own scale — its own ~256-day season between 28°F freezes, the 151 acres it covers and 167 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hallwood's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hallwood's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 17 and Nov 28 and the ~256-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 167 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hallwood, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hallwood's boundary and the 151 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~256-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hallwood's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Hallwood 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 Hallwood's 151 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Accomack County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Accomack 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 Accomack County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hallwood's 151 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hallwood you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 151 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 Hallwood-wide figureread your own land →