Chapmanville, West 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 Chapmanville, 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 Chapmanville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Chapmanville — the short answer
Chapmanville, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 229 days between hard freezes, across 420 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~229
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 420 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 Chapmanville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Chapmanville's 229-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Chapmanville
Each reading below is measured for Chapmanville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredChapmanville runs about 229 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
MeasuredChapmanville 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 Chapmanville is in
Chapmanville sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Chapmanville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Logan County.
What Grows in Chapmanville
Every plant below cleared Chapmanville's own zone 7a and its 229-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Chapmanville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — 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 Chapmanville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Chapmanville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 89 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Chapmanville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Chapmanville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WV0069Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- RICH OIL 3959Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- CHEVRON FACILITY #210695Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- CHAPMANVILLE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- CHAPMANVILLE CO - 49080Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- GUYAN MACHINERY COUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- CHAPMANVILLE TOWERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- WINCHESTER COAL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- CHAPMANVILLE EXXON MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- CHAPMANVILLE AUTO PARTS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- TOWN OF CHAPMANVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- MAYNARD SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Chapmanville'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 Chapmanville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Chapmanville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Chapmanville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Chapmanville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 137 sites within ~10 miles of Chapmanville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Chapmanville
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 Chapmanville average
Your land is one point inside Chapmanville
Everything above resolves to Chapmanville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 420 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 Chapmanville Average
Chapmanville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Chapmanville
- ●One soil character for all of Chapmanville
- ●Frost dates read at Chapmanville's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Chapmanville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Chapmanville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Chapmanville, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Chapmanville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Chapmanville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Chapmanville
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 Chapmanville’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 Chapmanville
When does frost risk typically end in Chapmanville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Chapmanville typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Chapmanville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Chapmanville typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 229 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Chapmanville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Chapmanville sees about 229 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 27, about 194 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Chapmanville?
The federal record around Chapmanville is a meaningful one — 205 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (137), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Chapmanville?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Chapmanville's scale — its 7a band and its 229-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Chapmanville'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 Chapmanville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Chapmanville's own scale — its own ~229-day season between 28°F freezes, the 420 acres it covers and 205 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Chapmanville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Chapmanville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 10 and the ~229-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 205 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Chapmanville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Chapmanville's boundary and the 420 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~229-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Chapmanville's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Chapmanville 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 Chapmanville's 420 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Logan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Logan 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 Logan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Chapmanville's 420 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Chapmanville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 420 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 Chapmanville-wide figureread your own land →
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