Glasgow, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Glasgow, 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 Glasgow lot. 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 Glasgow — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Glasgow — the short answer
Glasgow, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 225 days between hard freezes, across 298 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~225
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 298 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 Glasgow's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Glasgow's 225-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Glasgow
Each reading below is measured for Glasgow itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGlasgow runs about 225 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
MeasuredGlasgow 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 Glasgow is in
Glasgow sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Glasgow's own centroid rather than borrowed from Kanawha County.
What Grows in Glasgow
Every plant below cleared Glasgow's own zone 7a and its 225-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Glasgow?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — 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 Glasgow
Survey cells within 31 miles of Glasgow checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 88 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Glasgow
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Glasgow. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BEVERLY HEALTH CARE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #20518Brownfields · 1000 ft
- CABOT CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- PENNINGTON SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- APCO - GLASGOW SERVICE CENTERBrownfields · 1900 ft
- KAYOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- KANAWHA RIVER PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- CEDAR GROVE EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- AEP KANAWHA RIVER POWER PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 2500 ft
- AEP - KANAWHA RIVER PLANTBrownfields · 2500 ft
- BERRY TRUCKING CO INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- KING TIREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Glasgow'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 Glasgow.
Total Sites
351
within ~10 miles of Glasgow
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Glasgow
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Glasgow
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Glasgow
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Glasgow
Everything above resolves to Glasgow as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 298 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 Glasgow Average
Glasgow Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Glasgow
- ●One soil character for all of Glasgow
- ●Frost dates read at Glasgow's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Glasgow's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Glasgow
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Glasgow, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Glasgow averages can't show:
We read public map data around Glasgow — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Glasgow average
How we know this about Glasgow
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 Glasgow’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 Glasgow
When does frost risk typically end in Glasgow?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Glasgow typically lands around Mar 29, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Glasgow?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Glasgow typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 225 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Glasgow?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Glasgow sees about 225 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 26, about 190 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Glasgow?
The federal record around Glasgow is a meaningful one — 351 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (193), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Glasgow?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Glasgow's scale — its 7a band and its 225-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Glasgow'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 Glasgow’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Glasgow's own scale — its own ~225-day season between 28°F freezes, the 298 acres it covers and 351 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Glasgow's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Glasgow's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 9 and the ~225-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 351 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Glasgow, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Glasgow's boundary and the 298 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~225-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Glasgow's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Glasgow 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 Glasgow's 298 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Kanawha County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Kanawha 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 Kanawha County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Glasgow's 298 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Glasgow you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 298 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Glasgow-wide figureread your own land →