Clendenin, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, 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 Clendenin, 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 Clendenin lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Clendenin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Clendenin — the short answer
Clendenin, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 216 days between hard freezes, across 923 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~216
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 923 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 Clendenin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Clendenin's 216-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Clendenin
Each reading below is measured for Clendenin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredClendenin runs about 216 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
MeasuredClendenin 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 Clendenin is in
Clendenin sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Clendenin's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Kanawha County is mostly Central Appalachians. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Clendenin
Every plant below cleared Clendenin's own zone 7a and its 216-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Clendenin?
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 Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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 Clendenin
Survey cells within 31 miles of Clendenin checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 95 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Clendenin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Clendenin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- RICHARD D LADD/PROPERTY OWNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #11188Brownfields · 1500 ft
- CLENDENINS AUTO BODY INCBrownfields · 1700 ft
- J E WHITE CONSTRUCTION COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- CLENDENIN PHARMACYBrownfields · 1900 ft
- SPEEDWAY # 9794Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- HERBERT HOOVER HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 2100 ft
- CLENDENIN HARDWAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- RIVERVIEW PHARMACYBrownfields · 2300 ft
- CLARK & VELMA FISHERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SANDY BRAE MAINTENANCE AREAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Clendenin'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 Clendenin.
Total Sites
116
within ~10 miles of Clendenin
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Clendenin
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Clendenin
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Clendenin
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25+ data sources read at your address, not the Clendenin average
Your land is one point inside Clendenin
Everything above resolves to Clendenin as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 923 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 Clendenin Average
Clendenin Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Clendenin
- ●One soil character for all of Clendenin
- ●Frost dates read at Clendenin's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Clendenin's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Clendenin
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Clendenin, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Clendenin averages can't show:
We read public map data around Clendenin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Clendenin average
How we know this about Clendenin
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 Clendenin’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 Clendenin
When does frost risk typically end in Clendenin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Clendenin typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Clendenin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Clendenin typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 216 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Clendenin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Clendenin sees about 216 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 23, about 181 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Clendenin?
The federal record around Clendenin is a meaningful one — 116 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (62), 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 Clendenin?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Clendenin's scale — its 7a band and its 216-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Clendenin'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 Clendenin’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Clendenin's own scale — its own ~216-day season between 28°F freezes, the 923 acres it covers and 116 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Clendenin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Clendenin's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 6 and the ~216-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 116 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Clendenin, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Clendenin's boundary and the 923 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~216-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Clendenin sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Clendenin 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 Clendenin's 923 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Kanawha County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Kanawha 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 Kanawha County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Clendenin's 923 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Clendenin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 923 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 Clendenin-wide figureread your own land →