Corinne, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Corinne, 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 Corinne lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Corinne — the short answer
Corinne, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 206 days between hard freezes, across 236 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- 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 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~206
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 236 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 Corinne's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Corinne's 206-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Corinne
Each reading below is measured for Corinne itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCorinne runs about 206 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
MeasuredCorinne 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 Corinne is in
Corinne sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Corinne's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wyoming County.
What Grows in Corinne
Every plant below cleared Corinne's own zone 7a and its 206-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Corinne?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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 30 — 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 Corinne
Survey cells within 31 miles of Corinne checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 47 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Corinne
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Corinne. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FAIRVIEW SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- WAYNE'S MARKET INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- FORMER MULLENS MECHANICAL FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- WINFREY'S EXXON INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- SERVICE CENTER INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- WYOMING AUTO COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- WYOMING CO BD OF EDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- former Ray Wells ChevroletUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #8508Brownfields · 1.4 mi
- FORMER EXXON R/S 2-0459Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- ADKINS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- MULLENS FIRE DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Corinne'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 Corinne.
Total Sites
142
within ~10 miles of Corinne
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
7 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Corinne
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Corinne
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Corinne, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 89 sites within ~10 miles of Corinne. 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 Corinne
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Your land is one point inside Corinne
Everything above resolves to Corinne as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 236 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 Corinne Average
Corinne Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Corinne
- ●One soil character for all of Corinne
- ●Frost dates read at Corinne's scale: Apr 7 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Corinne's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Corinne
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Corinne, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Corinne averages can't show:
We read public map data around Corinne — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Corinne average
How we know this about Corinne
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 Corinne’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 Corinne
When does frost risk typically end in Corinne?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Corinne 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 Corinne?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Corinne typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 206 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Corinne?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Corinne sees about 206 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 16, about 171 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Corinne?
The federal record around Corinne shows 142 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (89), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Corinne?
From about Sep 30 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Corinne's scale — its 7a band and its 206-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Corinne'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 Corinne’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Corinne's own scale — its own ~206-day season between 28°F freezes, the 236 acres it covers and 142 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Corinne's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Corinne's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Oct 30 and the ~206-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 142 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Corinne, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Corinne's boundary and the 236 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~206-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Corinne's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Corinne 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 Corinne's 236 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wyoming County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wyoming 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 Wyoming County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Corinne's 236 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Corinne you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 236 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Corinne-wide figureread your own land →
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