Chattaroy, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Chattaroy, 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 Chattaroy lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Chattaroy — the short answer
Chattaroy, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 228 days between hard freezes, across 1K 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 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~228
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Chattaroy's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Chattaroy's 228-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Chattaroy
Each reading below is measured for Chattaroy itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredChattaroy runs about 228 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
MeasuredChattaroy 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 Chattaroy is in
Chattaroy sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Chattaroy's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mingo County.
What Grows in Chattaroy
Every plant below cleared Chattaroy's own zone 7a and its 228-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Chattaroy?
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 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 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Chattaroy
Survey cells within 31 miles of Chattaroy checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 78 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Chattaroy
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Chattaroy. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Mig-0071Nitrate · 1100 ft
- WV DOHUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Flav-O-RichUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Mig-0079Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- ELECTRIC LINE COMPANY, INC.Brownfields · 1.7 mi
- VICTORY LANE EXPRESS GROCERY LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- Mig-0072Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- WILLIAMSON MEMORIAL HOSPITALUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- FLETCHERS PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- FLOWERS BAKING CO OF WVUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- ROADHOUSE INN (FORMER OLD GULF)Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- MINGO CO HQ 02301Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Chattaroy'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 Chattaroy.
Total Sites
305
within ~10 miles of Chattaroy
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Chattaroy
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Chattaroy
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Chattaroy, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 118 sites within ~10 miles of Chattaroy. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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).
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Your land is one point inside Chattaroy
Everything above resolves to Chattaroy as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Chattaroy Average
Chattaroy Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Chattaroy
- ●One soil character for all of Chattaroy
- ●Frost dates read at Chattaroy's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Chattaroy's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Chattaroy
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Chattaroy, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Chattaroy averages can't show:
We read public map data around Chattaroy — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Chattaroy
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 Chattaroy’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 Chattaroy
When does frost risk typically end in Chattaroy?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Chattaroy 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 Chattaroy?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Chattaroy typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 228 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Chattaroy?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Chattaroy sees about 228 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 26, about 193 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Chattaroy?
The federal record around Chattaroy is a meaningful one — 305 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (155), the nearest Nitrate 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 Chattaroy?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Chattaroy's scale — its 7a band and its 228-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Chattaroy'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 Chattaroy’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Chattaroy's own scale — its own ~228-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,306 acres it covers and 305 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Chattaroy's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Chattaroy's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 9 and the ~228-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 305 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Chattaroy, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Chattaroy's boundary and the 1,306 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~228-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Chattaroy's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Chattaroy 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 Chattaroy's 1,306 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mingo County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mingo 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 Mingo County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Chattaroy's 1,306 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Chattaroy you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,306 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Chattaroy-wide figureread your own land →
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