East Dailey, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in East Dailey, 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 East Dailey lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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East Dailey — the short answer
East Dailey, West Virginia: USDA zone 6a, about 178 days between hard freezes, across 673 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~178
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 673 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 6a is East Dailey's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against East Dailey's 178-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in East Dailey
Each reading below is measured for East Dailey itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEast Dailey runs about 178 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredEast Dailey sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 East Dailey is in
East Dailey sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at East Dailey's own centroid rather than borrowed from Randolph County.
What Grows in East Dailey
Every plant below cleared East Dailey's own zone 6a and its 178-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in East Dailey?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around East Dailey
Survey cells within 31 miles of East Dailey checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 41 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near East Dailey
Closest first, within ~10 miles of East Dailey. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CONCAST METAL PRODS. CO.Toxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
- PAR MAR STORE #46Brownfields · 1.5 mi
- EASTERN HARDWOODS - DAILEY SAWMILLToxics Release Inventory · 1.6 mi
- NORTHWEST HARDWOODS, INC. - DAILEY YARDToxics Release Inventory · 1.6 mi
- DAILEY LOCATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- FORMER JESSIE'S EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- DAILEY SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- LEWIS WHARTONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- COASTAL LUMBER COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- PAR MAR #46Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- COUNTRY CONVENIENCE & GENERAL STUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- BRUCE HARDWOOD FLOORING BY ARMSTRONGToxics Release Inventory · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from East Dailey'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 East Dailey.
Total Sites
130
within ~10 miles of East Dailey
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
8 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of East Dailey
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of East Dailey
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around East Dailey, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of East Dailey — Toxics Release Inventory (8 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (80 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in East Dailey
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 East Dailey average
Your land is one point inside East Dailey
Everything above resolves to East Dailey as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 673 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 East Dailey Average
East Dailey Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across East Dailey
- ●One soil character for all of East Dailey
- ●Frost dates read at East Dailey's scale: Apr 24 to Oct 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not East Dailey's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in East Dailey
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in East Dailey, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that East Dailey averages can't show:
We read public map data around East Dailey — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the East Dailey average
How we know this about East Dailey
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 East Dailey’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 East Dailey
When does frost risk typically end in East Dailey?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in East Dailey typically lands around Apr 24, 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 May 15.
When is the first frost in East Dailey?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in East Dailey typically arrives around Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 5, so the watching starts about Sep 19 — about 178 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in East Dailey?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, East Dailey sees about 178 frost-free days — roughly Apr 24 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 15 to Oct 5, about 143 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in East Dailey?
The federal record around East Dailey shows 130 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (80), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.3 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 East Dailey?
From about Sep 19 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at East Dailey's scale — its 6a band and its 178-day season. Your yard writes its own version of East Dailey'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 East Dailey’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at East Dailey's own scale — its own ~178-day season between 28°F freezes, the 673 acres it covers and 130 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- East Dailey's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- East Dailey's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 24 and Oct 19 and the ~178-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 130 documented contamination sites on the federal record near East Dailey, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- East Dailey's boundary and the 673 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~178-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at East Dailey's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around East Dailey 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 East Dailey's 673 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Randolph County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Randolph 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 Randolph County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among East Dailey's 673 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of East Dailey you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 673 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.3 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 East Dailey-wide figureread your own land →