Bramwell, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bramwell, 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 Bramwell lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bramwell — the short answer
Bramwell, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 204 days between hard freezes, across 355 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- 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
- ~204
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 355 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 Bramwell's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bramwell's 204-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bramwell
Each reading below is measured for Bramwell itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBramwell runs about 204 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
MeasuredBramwell 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 Bramwell is in
Bramwell sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bramwell's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mercer County.
What Grows in Bramwell
Every plant below cleared Bramwell's own zone 6b and its 204-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bramwell?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Bramwell
Spotted lanternfly documented 30 miles from Bramwell, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bramwell
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bramwell. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BRAMWELL OUTPOSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- FREEMAN SCHOOL LEAD SITESuperfund · 2200 ft
- NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Mer-0169Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- BRAMWELL SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- NEMOURS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- BLUEFIELD, TOWN OFPFAS · 1.9 mi
- Crazy Horse IIIUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Service Station ABMI 449-005 RE 819Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- POCAHONTAS HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Pocahontas Central ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- Macks Oil Inc Bulk PlantUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bramwell'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 Bramwell.
Total Sites
390
within ~10 miles of Bramwell
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bramwell
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bramwell
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bramwell, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of Bramwell. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Bramwell
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 Bramwell
Everything above resolves to Bramwell as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 355 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 Bramwell Average
Bramwell Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Bramwell
- ●One soil character for all of Bramwell
- ●Frost dates read at Bramwell's scale: Apr 7 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bramwell's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bramwell
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bramwell, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bramwell averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bramwell — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Bramwell
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 Bramwell’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 Bramwell
When does frost risk typically end in Bramwell?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bramwell typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Bramwell?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bramwell 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 204 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bramwell?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bramwell sees about 204 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 14, about 169 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bramwell?
The federal record around Bramwell is a meaningful one — 390 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (231), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Bramwell?
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 Bramwell's scale — its 6b band and its 204-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bramwell'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 Bramwell’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bramwell's own scale — its own ~204-day season between 28°F freezes, the 355 acres it covers and 390 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bramwell's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bramwell's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Oct 28 and the ~204-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 390 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bramwell, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bramwell's boundary and the 355 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~204-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bramwell's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Bramwelllydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bramwell's 355 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mercer County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mercer 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 Mercer County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bramwell's 355 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bramwell you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 355 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Bramwell-wide figureread your own land →
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