Gypsy, 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 Gypsy, 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 Gypsy lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Gypsy — the short answer
Gypsy, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 207 days between hard freezes, across 497 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 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~207
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 497 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 Gypsy's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Gypsy's 207-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Gypsy
Each reading below is measured for Gypsy itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGypsy runs about 207 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
MeasuredGypsy 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 Gypsy is in
Gypsy sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Gypsy's own centroid rather than borrowed from Harrison County.
What Grows in Gypsy
Every plant below cleared Gypsy's own zone 6b and its 207-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Gypsy?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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 1 — 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 Gypsy
Spotted lanternfly documented 16 miles from Gypsy, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Gypsy
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Gypsy. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ENTERPRISE EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #298Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- HEPZIBAH POST OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SAM'S HOT DOG STAND FORMER MT VIEW HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SPINOS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BEEZ MOTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- CLARKSBURG CASKET COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- HEPZIBAH INDUSTRIAL PARK (ZINKAN)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SPAG'S EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- 7-ELEVEN # 35938Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- SHORTY CANNADY PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO - DOWNHOLEToxics Release Inventory · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Gypsy'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 Gypsy.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Gypsy
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Gypsy
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Gypsy, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 432 sites within ~10 miles of Gypsy. 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.
Check your specific parcel in Gypsy
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 Gypsy average
Your land is one point inside Gypsy
Everything above resolves to Gypsy as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 497 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 Gypsy Average
Gypsy Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Gypsy
- ●One soil character for all of Gypsy
- ●Frost dates read at Gypsy's scale: Apr 8 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Gypsy's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Gypsy
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Gypsy, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Gypsy averages can't show:
We read public map data around Gypsy — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Gypsy
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 Gypsy’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 Gypsy
When does frost risk typically end in Gypsy?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Gypsy 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 Gypsy?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Gypsy typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 207 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Gypsy?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Gypsy sees about 207 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 18, about 172 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Gypsy?
The federal record around Gypsy is a meaningful one — 685 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (432), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Gypsy?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Gypsy's scale — its 6b band and its 207-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Gypsy'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 Gypsy’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Gypsy's own scale — its own ~207-day season between 28°F freezes, the 497 acres it covers and 685 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Gypsy's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Gypsy's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Nov 1 and the ~207-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 685 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Gypsy, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Gypsy's boundary and the 497 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~207-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Gypsy's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Gypsylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Gypsy's 497 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Harrison County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Harrison 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 Harrison County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Gypsy's 497 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Gypsy you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 497 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Gypsy-wide figureread your own land →
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