Gassaway, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, 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 Gassaway, 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 Gassaway lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Gassaway — the short answer
Gassaway, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 739 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 739 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 Gassaway's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Gassaway's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Gassaway
Each reading below is measured for Gassaway itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGassaway runs about 208 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
MeasuredGassaway 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 Gassaway is in
Gassaway sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Gassaway's own centroid rather than borrowed from Braxton County.
What Grows in Gassaway
Every plant below cleared Gassaway's own zone 6b and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Gassaway?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — 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 Gassaway
Survey cells within 31 miles of Gassaway checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 64 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Gassaway
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Gassaway. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- J C BAKER & SONS BULK PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- GO-MART INCBrownfields · 1800 ft
- GO MART STORE #998Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- STEVE WHITE SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- GO-MART INC STORE #001Brownfields · 2300 ft
- GO-MART STORE # 001Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- RICH OIL #3912Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- SS LOC #29529Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- CITY MOTOR SALESUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- COASTAL LUMBER COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- PEPSI COLA GENERAL BOTTLERS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- GASSAWAY CONCRETEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Gassaway'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 Gassaway.
Total Sites
151
within ~10 miles of Gassaway
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Gassaway
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Gassaway
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Gassaway, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 105 sites within ~10 miles of Gassaway. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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.
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Your land is one point inside Gassaway
Everything above resolves to Gassaway as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 739 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 Gassaway Average
Gassaway Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Gassaway
- ●One soil character for all of Gassaway
- ●Frost dates read at Gassaway's scale: Apr 8 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Gassaway's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Gassaway
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Three things about your lot that Gassaway averages can't show:
We read public map data around Gassaway — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Gassaway
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 Gassaway’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 Gassaway
When does frost risk typically end in Gassaway?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Gassaway typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Gassaway?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Gassaway typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Gassaway?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Gassaway sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 19, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Gassaway?
The federal record around Gassaway shows 151 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (105), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Gassaway?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Gassaway's scale — its 6b band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Gassaway'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 Gassaway’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Gassaway's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 739 acres it covers and 151 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Gassaway's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Gassaway's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Nov 2 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 151 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Gassaway, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Gassaway's boundary and the 739 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Gassaway's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Gassaway 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 Gassaway's 739 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Braxton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Braxton 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 Braxton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Gassaway's 739 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Gassaway you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 739 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Gassaway-wide figureread your own land →
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