Passapatanzy, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Passapatanzy, 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 Passapatanzy lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Passapatanzy — the short answer
Passapatanzy, Virginia: USDA zone 7b, about 228 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~228
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Passapatanzy's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Passapatanzy's 228-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Passapatanzy
Each reading below is measured for Passapatanzy itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPassapatanzy runs about 228 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
MeasuredPassapatanzy 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 Passapatanzy is in
Passapatanzy sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Passapatanzy's own centroid rather than borrowed from King George County.
What Grows in Passapatanzy
Every plant below cleared Passapatanzy's own zone 7b and its 228-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Passapatanzy?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Passapatanzy
Spotted lanternfly documented 12 miles from Passapatanzy, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Passapatanzy
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Passapatanzy. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- White Oak MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Clean America IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- BIRCHWOOD POWER FACILITYToxics Release Inventory · 2.0 mi
- BIRCHWOOD POWER FACILITYBrownfields · 2.0 mi
- Piedmont FertilizerUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- VANS CONSTRUCTION CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- SEALSTON MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- MICKEMS PICKEMS Q CARD 04Brownfields · 2.4 mi
- Vu Deli (Sealston Deli)Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- Mac Trucking IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- CMC REBAR VA KING GEORGEToxics Release Inventory · 2.6 mi
- SAMS AUTO BODYBrownfields · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Passapatanzy'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 Passapatanzy.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Passapatanzy
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Passapatanzy
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Passapatanzy, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 399 sites within ~10 miles of Passapatanzy. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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.
Check your specific parcel in Passapatanzy
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 Passapatanzy
Everything above resolves to Passapatanzy as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Passapatanzy Average
Passapatanzy Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Passapatanzy
- ●One soil character for all of Passapatanzy
- ●Frost dates read at Passapatanzy's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Passapatanzy's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Passapatanzy
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Passapatanzy, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Passapatanzy averages can't show:
We read public map data around Passapatanzy — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Passapatanzy average
How we know this about Passapatanzy
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 Passapatanzy’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 Passapatanzy
When does frost risk typically end in Passapatanzy?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Passapatanzy typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Passapatanzy?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Passapatanzy typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 228 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Passapatanzy?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Passapatanzy sees about 228 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 26, about 193 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Passapatanzy?
The federal record around Passapatanzy is a meaningful one — 614 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (399), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.5 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 Passapatanzy?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Passapatanzy's scale — its 7b band and its 228-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Passapatanzy'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 Passapatanzy’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Passapatanzy's own scale — its own ~228-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,304 acres it covers and 614 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Passapatanzy's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Passapatanzy's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 9 and the ~228-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 614 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Passapatanzy, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Passapatanzy's boundary and the 1,304 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~228-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Passapatanzy's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Passapatanzylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Passapatanzy's 1,304 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 Passapatanzy's 1,304 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Passapatanzy you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,304 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.5 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 Passapatanzy-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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