Snowville, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Snowville, 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 Snowville 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 Snowville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Snowville — the short answer
Snowville, Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- 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 7a is Snowville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Snowville's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Snowville
Each reading below is measured for Snowville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSnowville runs about 208 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
MeasuredSnowville 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 Snowville is in
Snowville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Snowville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pulaski County.
What Grows in Snowville
Every plant below cleared Snowville's own zone 7a and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Snowville?
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 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — 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 Snowville
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Snowville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Snowville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Snowville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BOBS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- SNOWVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- A.J. Owens Grocery StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- KINGS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- GERVASE DUNCAN COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- D L Mabry GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- Route 102 ProspectMining · 3.1 mi
- SNOWVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT #2Underground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- Dicks Auto IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- Little River ProspectMining · 3.3 mi
- 25E 1 SOW 009Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- 26E 1Nitrate · 3.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Snowville'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 Snowville.
Total Sites
299
within ~10 miles of Snowville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Snowville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Snowville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Snowville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Snowville — Toxics Release Inventory (26 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (185 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Snowville
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 Snowville average
Your land is one point inside Snowville
Everything above resolves to Snowville 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 Snowville Average
Snowville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Snowville
- ●One soil character for all of Snowville
- ●Frost dates read at Snowville's scale: Apr 3 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Snowville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Snowville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Snowville, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Snowville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Snowville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Snowville average
How we know this about Snowville
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 Snowville’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 Snowville
When does frost risk typically end in Snowville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Snowville typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Snowville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Snowville typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Snowville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Snowville sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 14, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Snowville?
The federal record around Snowville is a meaningful one — 299 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (185), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Snowville?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Snowville's scale — its 7a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Snowville'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 Snowville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Snowville's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,391 acres it covers and 299 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Snowville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Snowville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Oct 28 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 299 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Snowville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Snowville's boundary and the 1,391 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Snowville's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Snowvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Snowville's 1,391 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pulaski County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pulaski 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 Pulaski County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Snowville's 1,391 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Snowville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,391 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Snowville-wide figureread your own land →
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