Lebanon Church, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, pawpaw, 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 Lebanon Church, 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 Lebanon Church 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 Lebanon Church — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
Lebanon Church — the short answer
Lebanon Church, Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 147 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~209
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 147 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 Lebanon Church's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lebanon Church's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lebanon Church
Each reading below is measured for Lebanon Church itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLebanon Church runs about 209 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
MeasuredLebanon Church 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 Lebanon Church is in
Lebanon Church sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lebanon Church's own centroid rather than borrowed from Shenandoah County.
What Grows in Lebanon Church
Every plant below cleared Lebanon Church's own zone 7a and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lebanon Church?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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 Lebanon Church
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Lebanon Church, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lebanon Church
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lebanon Church. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Gradens SupermarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- New Star MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- CARMEUSE LIME AND STONE - STRSBURGToxics Release Inventory · 2.9 mi
- O-N MINERALS (CHEMSTONE) CO-PORTABLE 81576Toxics Release Inventory · 3.0 mi
- O-N Minerals Chemstone CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION LLC - STRASBURG COMPRESSOR STATIONBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- STRASBURG, TOWN OFPFAS · 3.8 mi
- Chemstone Middletown QuarryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- O-N MINERALS (CHEMSTONE) COMPANY - PORTABLE 81744Toxics Release Inventory · 3.8 mi
- Strasburg 7-11 tanks472 LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- Holtman Express - StrasburgUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- RS Equipment Fleet ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lebanon Church'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 Lebanon Church.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lebanon Church
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lebanon Church
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lebanon Church, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lebanon Church — Underground Storage Tanks (102 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (10 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.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Lebanon Church
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 Lebanon Church average
Your land is one point inside Lebanon Church
Everything above resolves to Lebanon Church as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 147 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 Lebanon Church Average
Lebanon Church Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Lebanon Church
- ●One soil character for all of Lebanon Church
- ●Frost dates read at Lebanon Church's scale: Apr 6 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lebanon Church's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Lebanon Church
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lebanon Church, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lebanon Church averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lebanon Church — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lebanon Church average
How we know this about Lebanon Church
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 Lebanon Church’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 Lebanon Church
When does frost risk typically end in Lebanon Church?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lebanon Church typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Lebanon Church?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lebanon Church typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lebanon Church?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lebanon Church sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 18, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lebanon Church?
The federal record around Lebanon Church is a meaningful one — 142 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (102), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 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 Lebanon Church?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lebanon Church's scale — its 7a band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lebanon Church'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 Lebanon Church’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lebanon Church's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 147 acres it covers and 142 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lebanon Church's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lebanon Church's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Nov 1 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 142 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lebanon Church, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lebanon Church's boundary and the 147 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lebanon Church's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lebanon Churchlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lebanon Church's 147 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 Lebanon Church's 147 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lebanon Church you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 147 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 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 Lebanon Church-wide figureread your own land →