Crumpler, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Crumpler, 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 Crumpler lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Crumpler — the short answer
Crumpler, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 205 days between hard freezes, across 960 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~205
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 960 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 Crumpler's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Crumpler's 205-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Crumpler
Each reading below is measured for Crumpler itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCrumpler 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
MeasuredCrumpler 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 Crumpler is in
Crumpler sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Crumpler's own centroid rather than borrowed from McDowell County.
What Grows in Crumpler
Every plant below cleared Crumpler'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 Crumpler?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — 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 Crumpler
Survey cells within 31 miles of Crumpler checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 37 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Crumpler
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Crumpler. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BILL GORDON 449-001Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- POCAHONTAS COAL PROPERTY (FORMER)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- INSPIRATION COAL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- Mcd-0069Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- GAULEY EAGLE 4 PREP PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- MATOAKA COUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- FORMER UNITED POCAHONTAS COAL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- Mcd-0072Nitrate · 4.2 mi
- Mer-0151Nitrate · 4.3 mi
- AUSTIN POWDER COUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- MAYBEURY FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Crumpler'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 Crumpler.
Total Sites
151
within ~10 miles of Crumpler
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Crumpler
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Crumpler
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Crumpler, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Crumpler — PFAS (3 sites) and Nitrate (44 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Crumpler
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 Crumpler average
Your land is one point inside Crumpler
Everything above resolves to Crumpler as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 960 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 Crumpler Average
Crumpler Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Crumpler
- ●One soil character for all of Crumpler
- ●Frost dates read at Crumpler's scale: Apr 6 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Crumpler's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Crumpler
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Crumpler, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Crumpler averages can't show:
We read public map data around Crumpler — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Crumpler average
How we know this about Crumpler
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 Crumpler’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 Crumpler
When does frost risk typically end in Crumpler?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Crumpler typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Crumpler?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Crumpler typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 205 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Crumpler?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Crumpler sees about 205 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 14, about 170 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Crumpler?
The federal record around Crumpler is a meaningful one — 151 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (80), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Crumpler?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Crumpler's scale — its 6b band and its 205-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Crumpler'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 Crumpler’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Crumpler's own scale — its own ~205-day season between 28°F freezes, the 960 acres it covers and 151 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Crumpler's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Crumpler's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Oct 28 and the ~205-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 151 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Crumpler, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Crumpler's boundary and the 960 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 Crumpler's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Crumpler 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 Crumpler's 960 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom McDowell County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom McDowell 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 McDowell County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Crumpler's 960 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Crumpler you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 960 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Crumpler-wide figureread your own land →
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