Addison (Webster Springs), West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Addison (Webster 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 Addison (Webster Springs) lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Addison (Webster Springs) — the short answer
Addison (Webster Springs), West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 186 days between hard freezes, across 289 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~186
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 289 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 6b is Addison (Webster Springs)'s average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Addison (Webster Springs)'s 186-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Addison (Webster Springs)
Each reading below is measured for Addison (Webster Springs) itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAddison (Webster Springs) runs about 186 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAddison (Webster Springs) sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Addison (Webster Springs) is in
Addison (Webster Springs) sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Addison (Webster Springs)'s own centroid rather than borrowed from Webster County.
What Grows in Addison (Webster Springs)
Every plant below cleared Addison (Webster Springs)'s own zone 6b and its 186-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Addison (Webster Springs)?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Addison (Webster Springs)
Survey cells within 31 miles of Addison (Webster Springs) checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 65 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Addison (Webster Springs)
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Addison (Webster Springs). Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WEBSTER CO BOARD OF EDUCATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- WEBSTER SPRINGS DETACHMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- SMOOT COAL CO - SMOOT MINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- FORMER GAS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- CLEVENGER'S STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- TENNEY SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- WEBSTER COUNTY SCHOOL BOARDBrownfields · 2000 ft
- GO-MART STORE #002Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- SKIDMORE'S SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- GARAGE (FORMER -NO FORMS)Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- BARRY WINES SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- HIGHLANDER PHARMACYBrownfields · 2200 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Addison (Webster 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 Addison (Webster Springs).
Total Sites
100
within ~10 miles of Addison (Webster Springs)
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Addison (Webster Springs)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Addison (Webster Springs)
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Addison (Webster Springs), Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 26 sites within ~10 miles of Addison (Webster Springs). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Addison (Webster 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 Addison (Webster Springs) average
Your land is one point inside Addison (Webster Springs)
Everything above resolves to Addison (Webster Springs) as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 289 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 Addison (Webster Springs) Average
Addison (Webster Springs) Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Addison (Webster Springs)
- ●One soil character for all of Addison (Webster Springs)
- ●Frost dates read at Addison (Webster Springs)'s scale: Apr 21 to Oct 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Addison (Webster Springs)'s 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Addison (Webster Springs)
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Addison (Webster Springs), West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Addison (Webster Springs) averages can't show:
We read public map data around Addison (Webster Springs) — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Addison (Webster 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 Addison (Webster 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 Addison (Webster Springs)
When does frost risk typically end in Addison (Webster Springs)?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Addison (Webster Springs) typically lands around Apr 21, 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 May 12.
When is the first frost in Addison (Webster Springs)?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Addison (Webster Springs) typically arrives around Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 10, so the watching starts about Sep 24 — about 186 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Addison (Webster Springs)?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Addison (Webster Springs) sees about 186 frost-free days — roughly Apr 21 through Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 12 to Oct 10, about 151 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Addison (Webster Springs)?
The federal record around Addison (Webster Springs) shows 100 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (52), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Addison (Webster Springs)?
From about Sep 24 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Addison (Webster Springs)'s scale — its 6b band and its 186-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Addison (Webster 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 Addison (Webster Springs)’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Addison (Webster Springs)'s own scale — its own ~186-day season between 28°F freezes, the 289 acres it covers and 100 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Addison (Webster Springs)'s own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Addison (Webster Springs)'s own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 21 and Oct 24 and the ~186-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 100 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Addison (Webster Springs), the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Addison (Webster Springs)'s boundary and the 289 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~186-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Addison (Webster Springs)'s own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Addison (Webster Springs) checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Addison (Webster Springs)'s 289 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Webster County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Webster County
- The growing challenges every West Virginia grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom West Virginia
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Webster County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Addison (Webster Springs)'s 289 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Addison (Webster 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 289 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Addison (Webster Springs)-wide figureread your own land →