Wyoming County, in 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.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Wyoming County lies within Appalachia — a regional growing area with its own character.
Grounded in USDA PHZM 2023 · Growable Ground suitability scoring · NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Wyoming County holds more than one microclimate.
Soils and elevations shift across Wyoming County, so your frost dates and drainage aren't the county average. 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 Wyoming County — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Wyoming County — the short answer
Wyoming County, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 320K acres.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F
- County area
- 320K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are county 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 Wyoming County's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wyoming County's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Heat in Wyoming County
Across a year, Wyoming County accumulates about 3,169 growing degree days above 50°F, about 159 more than the middle West Virginia county — ahead of 39 of West Virginia’s 55 counties. Degree days are the heat a crop actually gets to work with — more of them is more room to ripen a long-season crop before the freeze closes the window.
Grounded in PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University — 1991–2020 monthly normals
Soil in Wyoming County
Across Wyoming County, the ground is predominantly Inceptisols, where Berks, Pineville, and Matewan are the most extensive named soil series. The soil is generally well drained with a channery loam surface. Topsoil pH runs about 4.6–5.5, very strongly acidic. Rainfall drains through hydrologic group B soils.
Soil order
Inceptisols
Drainage
Well drained
Prime farmland
1%
Hydric soils
0%
Soil still varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
How the ground varies across Wyoming County
The USDA soil survey maps 96% of Wyoming County as well drained — but another 2% drains differently: 2% somewhat excessively drained.
Berks is the most extensive named soil at 37% of mapped acres, then Pineville (36%) and Matewan (9%).
Which of them your own lot sits on is a parcel question, not a county one. Check your address for the survey at your boundary.
What this means for growing in Wyoming County
Each reading below is measured for Wyoming County itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Drainage
MeasuredThe dominant soils across Wyoming County are well drained, in hydrologic group B — ground that drains quickly.
The upside is soil you can work early in spring and roots that never drown; the cost is that fast-draining ground dries out fast and leaches nutrients away before plants can use them.
Work in compost and mulch to hold moisture and feed, and water more often in short doses than deep and rarely.
USDA NRCS SSURGO
Surface pH
MeasuredTopsoil across Wyoming County runs about pH 4.6–5.5, on the acidic side.
Blueberries, potatoes, and rhododendrons thrive in it, but most vegetables start locking out nutrients below about pH 6.0 and grow pale and stunted no matter how much you feed them.
A measured lime application raises pH for the crops that need it — but test first, because the right rate depends on your own soil, not the county average.
USDA NRCS SSURGO
Season length
MeasuredWyoming County runs about 215 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
MeasuredWyoming County 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 Wyoming County is in
Wyoming County sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. One consistent ecological setting across the whole county.
What Grows in Wyoming County
We scored all 1,086 plants against Wyoming County's own USDA zone 7a and its own 215-day season between hard freezes, using the same matching engine that runs a full parcel report. These cleared both. Sun, soil pH and drainage vary lot by lot — those are the parcel questions below. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile.
Is it too late to plant in Wyoming County?
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 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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 Wyoming County
Survey cells within 31 miles of Wyoming County checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 53 miles off. What to watch for.
What gets applied to farmland in Wyoming County
USGS estimates 222 lb of Triclopyr on Wyoming County farmland in 2019, its largest by weight, ahead of Glyphosate (190 lb) and 2,4-d (58 lb).
Farmland across the whole county, not any one lot. Check your address for the site-by-site record.
Safe to Grow Here?
What the federal record shows across Wyoming County — and how to grow with it.
We checked the federal record across Wyoming County — 252 documented sites across 5 of the 9 source types we track.
The most significant on record: 6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities. Active industrial facilities reporting chemical releases to air, water, and land.
There's a meaningful federal record across Wyoming County — worth a look before you plant food, not a reason to hold back from growing. Proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. A soil test before new food beds is the sensible precaution here, and the map shows exactly which sites sit where, so you can see what's actually near you.
Sources: EPA, USGS — 1.8M documented sites tracked nationwide across 9 federal source types.
What's on the federal record near Wyoming County
Closest first, across Wyoming County. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #922Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- MOUNTAINEER GAS CO - PINEVILLE SERVICE CENTERBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- SPEEDWAY #9730Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- 7-ELEVEN 35918Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- WALGREENS #19681Brownfields · 1.4 mi
- PINEVILLE CO - 45724Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- PHARMACY CARE INC DBA RHONDA'S PHARMACYBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- APCO - PINEVILLE SERVICE CENTERBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- LITTLE GENERAL STORE #2005Brownfields · 1.5 mi
- WYOMING COUNTY COMMISSIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- WYOMING COUNTY AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- LITTLE GENERAL STORE # 2005Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wyoming County'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 Wyoming County.
Total Sites
252
across Wyoming County
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
across Wyoming County
Severity Distribution
across Wyoming County
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wyoming County, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 156 sites across Wyoming County. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 Wyoming County
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 Wyoming County average
Your land is one point inside Wyoming County
Everything above resolves to Wyoming County as a whole — one PHZM band and one county frost record, read across 320K 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 county 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 county average.
Your Lot vs the Wyoming County Average
Wyoming County Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Wyoming County
- ●One soil character for all of Wyoming County
- ●Frost dates read at Wyoming County's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wyoming County's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your parcel in Wyoming County
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wyoming County, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wyoming County averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wyoming County — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wyoming County average
How we know this about Wyoming County
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at county grain; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at this county’s own record where one resolves, and the labelled statewide window where none does; soils from the USDA NRCS SSURGO survey, area-weighted across the county’s own map units; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination and pesticide records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Where Wyoming County carries no record of its own, the figure is inherited and labelled — the resolution ledger below names each.
Common questions about Wyoming County
When does frost risk typically end in Wyoming County?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wyoming County typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
How long is the growing season in Wyoming County?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wyoming County sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 20, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wyoming County?
The federal record around Wyoming County is a meaningful one — 252 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (156), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.9 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.
Everything above is measured at Wyoming County's scale — its 7a band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wyoming County's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
Will It Grow Here?
Zone fit is the first question — each answer below reads West Virginia's frost window, season length, and soil profile against the plant's real requirements.
What this page reads at Wyoming County’s own scale
8 of the readings below were taken at Wyoming County's own scale — its own ~215-day span between 28°F freezes, the 3 most extensive soil series mapped here and 252 documented sites inside its boundary; one is borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wyoming County's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wyoming County's own 28°F hard-freeze dates and its ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- The soil order, drainage, surface pH, and the 3 most extensive named soil series mapped in Wyoming CountyUSDA NRCS SSURGO
- 252 documented contamination sites inside the county boundary, distance-sorted from its center — the closest Brownfields record about 0.9 miles outFederal environmental registers
- Wyoming County's boundary and the 319,660 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Wyoming County sitting wholly inside the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Which agricultural compounds go onto Wyoming County farmland, and roughly how muchUSGS NAWQA EPest county estimates
Inherited from a wider read
- The growing challenges every West Virginia grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom West Virginia
What this page can’t tell you
- How the season shifts across Wyoming County — the ~215 days above is one reading at its centre; the 12 towns below each carry their owntowns in this county →
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wyoming County's 319,660 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which of those 252 documented sites actually reaches your soil — that needs your address, the wind, and the groundwater directionhow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — none of it survives being averaged over Wyoming Countyread your own land →