Greenview, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Greenview, 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 Greenview 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 Greenview — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Greenview — the short answer
Greenview, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 631 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~222
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 631 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 Greenview's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Greenview's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Greenview
Each reading below is measured for Greenview itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGreenview runs about 222 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
MeasuredGreenview 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 Greenview is in
Greenview sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Greenview's own centroid rather than borrowed from Boone County.
What Grows in Greenview
Every plant below cleared Greenview's own zone 7a and its 222-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Greenview?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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 Greenview
Survey cells within 31 miles of Greenview checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 84 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Greenview
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Greenview. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #17316Brownfields · 1500 ft
- BOONE COUNTY SOLID WASTE TRANSFEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- BOONE COUNTY HQ 01031Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- JEFFREY MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- MARCUM ASHLANDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- B & B EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- CARL'S SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- JEFFERY COMPRESSOR STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- CENTRAL SUPPLY WAREHOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- ARTS CHEVRON STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- MITZI'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- DANVILLE LUMBERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Greenview'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 Greenview.
Total Sites
186
within ~10 miles of Greenview
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Greenview
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Greenview
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.
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Your land is one point inside Greenview
Everything above resolves to Greenview as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 631 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 Greenview Average
Greenview Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Greenview
- ●One soil character for all of Greenview
- ●Frost dates read at Greenview's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Greenview's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Greenview
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Greenview, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Greenview — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Greenview average
How we know this about Greenview
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 Greenview’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 Greenview
When does frost risk typically end in Greenview?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Greenview typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Greenview?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Greenview typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 222 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Greenview?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Greenview sees about 222 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 24, about 187 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Greenview?
The federal record around Greenview shows 186 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (111), the nearest Brownfields 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 Greenview?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Greenview's scale — its 7a band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Greenview'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 Greenview’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Greenview's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 631 acres it covers and 186 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Greenview's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Greenview's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 7 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 186 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Greenview, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Greenview's boundary and the 631 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~222-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Greenview's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Greenview 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 Greenview's 631 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Boone County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Boone 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 Boone County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Greenview's 631 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Greenview you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 631 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Greenview-wide figureread your own land →
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