Bergoo, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bergoo, 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 Bergoo lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bergoo — the short answer
Bergoo, West Virginia: USDA zone 6a, about 185 days between hard freezes, across 136 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 22
- 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
- ~185
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 136 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 6a is Bergoo's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bergoo's 185-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bergoo
Each reading below is measured for Bergoo itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBergoo runs about 185 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
MeasuredBergoo sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Bergoo is in
Bergoo sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bergoo's own centroid rather than borrowed from Webster County.
What Grows in Bergoo
Every plant below cleared Bergoo's own zone 6a and its 185-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bergoo?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 22 (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. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Bergoo
Survey cells within 31 miles of Bergoo checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 62 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bergoo
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bergoo. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Web-0242Nitrate · 1500 ft
- MCATEE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- TELEPHONE EQUIP BUILDINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- COWEN PSDPFAS · 3.4 mi
- Web-0190Nitrate · 4.5 mi
- WEBSTER CO HQ 07511Underground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- WVDOH - WEBSTER HEADQUARTERSBrownfields · 5.4 mi
- K & M SALES AND SERVICES, LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- HAMRICK'S PRE-OWNED AUTOS & SERVICE CENTERBrownfields · 5.4 mi
- MG SALES & SERVICE CO., INC.Brownfields · 5.4 mi
- T & M PETROLEUMUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- RAVEN INDUSTRIESBrownfields · 5.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bergoo'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 Bergoo.
Total Sites
56
within ~10 miles of Bergoo
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bergoo
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bergoo
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
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Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Bergoo
Everything above resolves to Bergoo as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 136 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 Bergoo Average
Bergoo Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Bergoo
- ●One soil character for all of Bergoo
- ●Frost dates read at Bergoo's scale: Apr 22 to Oct 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bergoo's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bergoo
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bergoo, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bergoo averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bergoo — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bergoo average
How we know this about Bergoo
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 Bergoo’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 Bergoo
When does frost risk typically end in Bergoo?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bergoo typically lands around Apr 22, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Bergoo?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bergoo 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 185 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bergoo?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bergoo sees about 185 frost-free days — roughly Apr 22 through Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 13 to Oct 10, about 150 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bergoo?
The federal record around Bergoo shows 56 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (29), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Bergoo?
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 Bergoo's scale — its 6a band and its 185-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bergoo'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 Bergoo’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bergoo's own scale — its own ~185-day season between 28°F freezes, the 136 acres it covers and 56 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bergoo's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bergoo's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 22 and Oct 24 and the ~185-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 56 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bergoo, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bergoo's boundary and the 136 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~185-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bergoo's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Bergoo 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 Bergoo's 136 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 Bergoo's 136 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bergoo you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 136 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Bergoo-wide figureread your own land →