Pamplin City, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pamplin City, 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 Pamplin City lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pamplin City — the short answer
Pamplin City, Virginia: USDA zone 7b, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 202 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 202 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 Pamplin City's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pamplin City's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pamplin City
Each reading below is measured for Pamplin City itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPamplin City runs about 224 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
MeasuredPamplin City 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 Pamplin City is in
Pamplin City sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pamplin City's own centroid rather than borrowed from Appomattox County.
What Grows in Pamplin City
Every plant below cleared Pamplin City's own zone 7b and its 224-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pamplin City?
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 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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 Pamplin City
Spotted lanternfly documented 8 miles from Pamplin City, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pamplin City
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pamplin City. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Tolleys MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Old Pamlin Town Hall BuildingUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- R&K GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- H.E. CARWILE, JR - FORMER DAIRY CATTLE FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Pamplin ExxonUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Taylor Ramsey Pamplin Sawmill DivisionUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- THOMAS GROCERY / MADISONVILLE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- H J ST JohnUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- Todd Perdieu PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- KYANITE PAMPLIN PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- J K HAMILTONS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pamplin City'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 Pamplin City.
Total Sites
83
within ~10 miles of Pamplin City
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pamplin City
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pamplin City
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pamplin City, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 76 sites within ~10 miles of Pamplin City. 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.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Pamplin City
Everything above resolves to Pamplin City as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 202 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 Pamplin City Average
Pamplin City Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Pamplin City
- ●One soil character for all of Pamplin City
- ●Frost dates read at Pamplin City's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pamplin City's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pamplin City
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pamplin City, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pamplin City averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pamplin City — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pamplin City average
How we know this about Pamplin City
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 Pamplin City’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 Pamplin City
When does frost risk typically end in Pamplin City?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pamplin City typically lands around Mar 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Pamplin City?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pamplin City typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pamplin City?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pamplin City sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 23, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pamplin City?
The federal record around Pamplin City shows 83 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (76), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles 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 Pamplin City?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pamplin City's scale — its 7b band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pamplin City'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 Pamplin City’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pamplin City's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 202 acres it covers and 83 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pamplin City's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pamplin City's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 6 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 83 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pamplin City, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pamplin City's boundary and the 202 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~224-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pamplin City's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Pamplin Citylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pamplin City's 202 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Appomattox County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Appomattox 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 Appomattox County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pamplin City's 202 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pamplin City you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 202 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Pamplin City-wide figureread your own land →
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