Yogaville, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Yogaville, 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 Yogaville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Yogaville — the short answer
Yogaville, Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- 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 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~222
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 Yogaville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Yogaville's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Yogaville
Each reading below is measured for Yogaville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredYogaville runs about 222 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
MeasuredYogaville 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 Yogaville is in
Yogaville sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Yogaville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Buckingham County.
What Grows in Yogaville
Every plant below cleared Yogaville's own zone 7a and its 222-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Yogaville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 6 — 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 Yogaville
Spotted lanternfly documented 12 miles from Yogaville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Yogaville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Yogaville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- YOGAVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- VDOT - MANTEO AREA HEADQUARTERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- 162-00276Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- Dolan Property ProspectMining · 2.6 mi
- Dolan ProspectMining · 2.6 mi
- Woodson GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- GEORGIA-PACIFIC WINGINA WOODYARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- PERCY PARRUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- Westvaco Corp Howardsville YardUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- PATTESONS EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- Charlottesville Oil Co Inc Howardsville GulfUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- Howardsville General Store & Trading CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Yogaville'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 Yogaville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Yogaville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Yogaville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Yogaville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Yogaville — Mining (6 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (36 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Yogaville
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 Yogaville average
Your land is one point inside Yogaville
Everything above resolves to Yogaville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Yogaville Average
Yogaville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Yogaville
- ●One soil character for all of Yogaville
- ●Frost dates read at Yogaville's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Yogaville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Yogaville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Yogaville, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Yogaville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Yogaville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Yogaville average
How we know this about Yogaville
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 Yogaville’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 Yogaville
When does frost risk typically end in Yogaville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Yogaville 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 Yogaville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Yogaville 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 222 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Yogaville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Yogaville sees about 222 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 23, about 187 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Yogaville?
The federal record around Yogaville is light — 45 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (36), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Yogaville?
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 Yogaville's scale — its 7a band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Yogaville'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 Yogaville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Yogaville's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,854 acres it covers and 45 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Yogaville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Yogaville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 6 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 45 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Yogaville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Yogaville's boundary and the 3,854 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~222-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Yogaville's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Yogavillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Yogaville's 3,854 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Buckingham County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Buckingham 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 Buckingham County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Yogaville's 3,854 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Yogaville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,854 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Yogaville-wide figureread your own land →
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