Patrick Springs, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Patrick Springs, 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 Patrick Springs 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 Patrick Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Patrick Springs — the short answer
Patrick Springs, Virginia: USDA zone 7b, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 10K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 10K 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 Patrick Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Patrick Springs's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Patrick Springs
Each reading below is measured for Patrick Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPatrick Springs 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
MeasuredPatrick Springs 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 Patrick Springs is in
Patrick Springs sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Patrick Springs's own centroid rather than borrowed from Patrick County.
What Grows in Patrick Springs
Every plant below cleared Patrick Springs'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 Patrick Springs?
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 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — 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 Patrick Springs
Spotted lanternfly documented 14 miles from Patrick Springs, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Patrick Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Patrick Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- C L MARTINUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- FriendlysUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- FRIENDLY FOODSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Otis Craddock General RepairUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- VDOT - Patrick Springs Area HeadquartersUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Patrick Springs Elementary SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- J.C. JOYCE TRUCKING & PAVING COMPANY, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- TEN OAKS, LLCBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- T GEORGE VAUGHAN PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 2.0 mi
- PATRICK SPRINGS EXXON SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- FREDS TRADING POSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- FULFLEX INCToxics Release Inventory · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Patrick Springs'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 Patrick Springs.
Total Sites
110
within ~10 miles of Patrick Springs
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Patrick Springs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Patrick Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Patrick Springs, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 95 sites within ~10 miles of Patrick Springs. 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.
Check your specific parcel in Patrick Springs
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 Patrick Springs average
Your land is one point inside Patrick Springs
Everything above resolves to Patrick Springs as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 10K 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 Patrick Springs Average
Patrick Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Patrick Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Patrick Springs
- ●Frost dates read at Patrick Springs's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Patrick Springs's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Patrick Springs
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Patrick Springs, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Patrick Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Patrick Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Patrick Springs average
How we know this about Patrick Springs
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 Patrick Springs’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 Patrick Springs
When does frost risk typically end in Patrick Springs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Patrick Springs typically lands around Mar 29, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Patrick Springs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Patrick Springs typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Patrick Springs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Patrick Springs sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 25, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Patrick Springs?
The federal record around Patrick Springs shows 110 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (95), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Patrick Springs?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Patrick Springs's scale — its 7b band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Patrick Springs'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 Patrick Springs’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Patrick Springs's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 9,946 acres it covers and 110 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Patrick Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Patrick Springs's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 8 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 110 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Patrick Springs, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Patrick Springs's boundary and the 9,946 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 Patrick Springs's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Patrick Springslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Patrick Springs's 9,946 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Patrick County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Patrick 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 Patrick County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Patrick Springs's 9,946 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Patrick Springs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 9,946 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Patrick Springs-wide figureread your own land →