Singers Glen, 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.
These conditions suit cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Singers Glen, 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 Singers Glen lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Singers Glen — the short answer
Singers Glen, Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 202 days between hard freezes, across 553 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~202
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 553 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 Singers Glen's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Singers Glen's 202-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Singers Glen
Each reading below is measured for Singers Glen itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSingers Glen runs about 202 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
MeasuredSingers Glen 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 Singers Glen is in
Singers Glen sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Singers Glen's own centroid rather than borrowed from Rockingham County.
What Grows in Singers Glen
Every plant below cleared Singers Glen's own zone 7a and its 202-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Singers Glen?
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 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — 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 Singers Glen
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Singers Glen, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Singers Glen
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Singers Glen. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- O&R MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- HOLLARS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- 39S 36Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- M E MULLEN FUNERAL HOMEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- Armentrout ProspectMining · 1.9 mi
- Showalter ProspectMining · 2.0 mi
- 39S 34Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- 39S 35Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- Armstrong-Kiser ProspectMining · 2.2 mi
- 39S40Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- 39S 25 MC-36 DP-05Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- 39S 6 MC-10Nitrate · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Singers Glen'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 Singers Glen.
Total Sites
533
within ~10 miles of Singers Glen
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Singers Glen
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Singers Glen
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Singers Glen, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Singers Glen — CAFO (11 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (345 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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25+ data sources read at your address, not the Singers Glen average
Your land is one point inside Singers Glen
Everything above resolves to Singers Glen as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 553 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 Singers Glen Average
Singers Glen Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Singers Glen
- ●One soil character for all of Singers Glen
- ●Frost dates read at Singers Glen's scale: Apr 8 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Singers Glen's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Three things about your lot that Singers Glen averages can't show:
We read public map data around Singers Glen — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Singers Glen average
How we know this about Singers Glen
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 Singers Glen’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 Singers Glen
When does frost risk typically end in Singers Glen?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Singers Glen typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Singers Glen?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Singers Glen typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 202 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Singers Glen?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Singers Glen sees about 202 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 13, about 167 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Singers Glen?
The federal record around Singers Glen is a meaningful one — 533 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (345), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Singers Glen?
From about Sep 27 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 Oct 27 (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 Oct 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Singers Glen's scale — its 7a band and its 202-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Singers Glen'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 Singers Glen’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Singers Glen's own scale — its own ~202-day season between 28°F freezes, the 553 acres it covers and 533 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Singers Glen's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Singers Glen's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Oct 27 and the ~202-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 533 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Singers Glen, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Singers Glen's boundary and the 553 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~202-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Singers Glen's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Singers Glenlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Singers Glen's 553 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Rockingham County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Rockingham 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 Rockingham County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Singers Glen's 553 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Singers Glen you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 553 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Singers Glen-wide figureread your own land →