Moorefield, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Moorefield, 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 Moorefield lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Moorefield — the short answer
Moorefield, Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 218 days between hard freezes, across 727 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~218
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 727 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 Moorefield's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Moorefield's 218-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Moorefield
Each reading below is measured for Moorefield itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMoorefield runs about 218 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
MeasuredMoorefield 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 Moorefield is in
Moorefield sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Moorefield's own centroid rather than borrowed from Loudoun County.
What Grows in Moorefield
Every plant below cleared Moorefield's own zone 7a and its 218-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Moorefield?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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 Moorefield
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Moorefield, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Moorefield
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Moorefield. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 7-Eleven Inc 40050Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- DIGITAL REALTY DATA CENTER - IAD12Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- DIGITAL REALTY DATA CENTER - IAD15Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- KAISER PERMANENTE MAS - ASHBURN MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDINGBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- LCPS - MOOREFIELD STATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- HOME DEPOT STORE #4647Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- 7-Eleven Inc 40054Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- HARRIS TEETER 284Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- WALGREENS #10503Brownfields · 1.0 mi
- ASH3 QTS DATACENTERS- SHELLHORNBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- EXPLUS INCBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- Mercure Industrial (SA-32)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Moorefield'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 Moorefield.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Moorefield
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Moorefield
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Moorefield, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 601 sites within ~10 miles of Moorefield. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Moorefield
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 Moorefield average
Your land is one point inside Moorefield
Everything above resolves to Moorefield as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 727 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 Moorefield Average
Moorefield Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Moorefield
- ●One soil character for all of Moorefield
- ●Frost dates read at Moorefield's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Moorefield's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Moorefield
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Moorefield, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Moorefield averages can't show:
We read public map data around Moorefield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Moorefield average
How we know this about Moorefield
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 Moorefield’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 Moorefield
When does frost risk typically end in Moorefield?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Moorefield typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Moorefield?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Moorefield typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 218 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Moorefield?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Moorefield sees about 218 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 20, about 183 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Moorefield?
The federal record around Moorefield is a meaningful one — 1,223 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (601), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Moorefield?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Moorefield's scale — its 7a band and its 218-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Moorefield'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 Moorefield’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Moorefield's own scale — its own ~218-day season between 28°F freezes, the 727 acres it covers and 1,223 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Moorefield's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Moorefield's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 3 and the ~218-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,223 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Moorefield, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Moorefield's boundary and the 727 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~218-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Moorefield's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Moorefieldlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Moorefield's 727 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Loudoun County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Loudoun 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 Loudoun County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Moorefield's 727 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Moorefield you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 727 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Moorefield-wide figureread your own land →