Clarksburg, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Clarksburg, 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 Clarksburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Clarksburg — the short answer
Clarksburg, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 205 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~205
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 6K 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 Clarksburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Clarksburg's 205-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Clarksburg
Each reading below is measured for Clarksburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredClarksburg runs about 205 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
MeasuredClarksburg 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 Clarksburg is in
Clarksburg sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Clarksburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Harrison County.
What Grows in Clarksburg
Every plant below cleared Clarksburg's own zone 6b and its 205-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Clarksburg?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Clarksburg
Spotted lanternfly documented 21 miles from Clarksburg, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Clarksburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Clarksburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LOUIS A JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- LOUIS A JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTERBrownfields · 1300 ft
- PEPSI COLA BOTTLINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CREASEY COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- WM CALOCCIA T/A ST AUTO WRECKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- KIRBY'S EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- FORMER S/S #22135Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- HARRISON CO SCHOOLS/ASHLAND 289-Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- FOOD LION #1169Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- MOUNTAINEER OLDSMOBILE SUBARU ISUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- BELL MINING CO 289-0221925Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- STAR MOTOR COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Clarksburg'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 Clarksburg.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Clarksburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Clarksburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Clarksburg, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 404 sites within ~10 miles of Clarksburg. 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 Clarksburg
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 Clarksburg average
Your land is one point inside Clarksburg
Everything above resolves to Clarksburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K 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 city 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 Clarksburg Average
Clarksburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Clarksburg
- ●One soil character for all of Clarksburg
- ●Frost dates read at Clarksburg's scale: Apr 9 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Clarksburg's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Clarksburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Clarksburg, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Clarksburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Clarksburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Clarksburg average
How we know this about Clarksburg
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Clarksburg’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Clarksburg
When does frost risk typically end in Clarksburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Clarksburg typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Clarksburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Clarksburg typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 205 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Clarksburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Clarksburg sees about 205 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 17, about 170 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Clarksburg?
The federal record around Clarksburg is a meaningful one — 627 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (404), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Clarksburg?
From about Oct 1 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 31 (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 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Clarksburg's scale — its 6b band and its 205-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Clarksburg'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 Clarksburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Clarksburg's own scale — its own ~205-day season between 28°F freezes, the 6,220 acres it covers and 627 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Clarksburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Clarksburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Oct 31 and the ~205-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 627 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Clarksburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Clarksburg's boundary and the 6,220 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~205-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Clarksburg's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Clarksburglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Clarksburg's 6,220 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Harrison County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Harrison 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 Harrison County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Clarksburg's 6,220 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Clarksburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,220 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Clarksburg-wide figureread your own land →
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