Glen Dale, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Glen Dale, 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 Glen Dale lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Glen Dale — the short answer
Glen Dale, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 544 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 544 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 Glen Dale's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Glen Dale's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Glen Dale
Each reading below is measured for Glen Dale itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGlen Dale runs about 217 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
MeasuredGlen Dale 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 Glen Dale is in
Glen Dale sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Glen Dale's own centroid rather than borrowed from Marshall County.
What Grows in Glen Dale
Every plant below cleared Glen Dale's own zone 6b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Glen Dale?
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 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Glen Dale
Spotted lanternfly documented 10 miles from Glen Dale, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Glen Dale
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Glen Dale. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- REYNOLDS MEM. HOSP., GLENDALEBrownfields · 400 ft
- STREET DEPT GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- WHEELING WHOLESALE GROCERY COMPAUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- CITY OF GLEN DALE - STREET DEPTBrownfields · 900 ft
- MOUNDSVILLE BULK PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- HIGHLINE WARREN NORTHEASTToxics Release Inventory · 1000 ft
- HIGHLINE WARREN NORTHEASTBrownfields · 1000 ft
- GLENDALE TCE SITESuperfund · 1100 ft
- Mal-0407Nitrate · 1100 ft
- REILLY'S EXXONBrownfields · 1700 ft
- REILLEYS CARPETBrownfields · 1800 ft
- REILLEY'S EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Glen Dale'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 Glen Dale.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Glen Dale
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Glen Dale
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Glen Dale, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Glen Dale — Superfund (10 sites) and PFAS (5 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Glen Dale
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 Glen Dale
Everything above resolves to Glen Dale as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 544 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 city 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 Glen Dale Average
Glen Dale Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Glen Dale
- ●One soil character for all of Glen Dale
- ●Frost dates read at Glen Dale's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Glen Dale's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Glen Dale
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Glen Dale, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Glen Dale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Glen Dale
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Glen Dale’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Glen Dale
When does frost risk typically end in Glen Dale?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Glen Dale typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Glen Dale?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Glen Dale typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Glen Dale?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Glen Dale sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 25, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Glen Dale?
The federal record around Glen Dale is a meaningful one — 560 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (316), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Glen Dale?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Glen Dale's scale — its 6b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Glen Dale'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 Glen Dale’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Glen Dale's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 544 acres it covers and 560 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Glen Dale's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Glen Dale's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 8 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 560 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Glen Dale, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Glen Dale's boundary and the 544 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Glen Dale's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Glen Dalelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Glen Dale's 544 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marshall County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marshall 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 Marshall County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Glen Dale's 544 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Glen Dale you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 544 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Glen Dale-wide figureread your own land →
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