Hedgesville, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Hedgesville, 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 Hedgesville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hedgesville — the short answer
Hedgesville, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 84 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- 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
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 84 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 Hedgesville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hedgesville's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hedgesville
Each reading below is measured for Hedgesville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHedgesville runs about 213 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
MeasuredHedgesville 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 Hedgesville is in
Hedgesville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hedgesville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Berkeley County.
What Grows in Hedgesville
Every plant below cleared Hedgesville's own zone 7a and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hedgesville?
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 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (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 Hedgesville
Spotted lanternfly documented 0 miles from Hedgesville, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hedgesville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hedgesville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HEDGESVILLE HARDWAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- 7-ELEVEN # 28310Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- HEDGESVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BACK CREEK VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- MCI-N MOUNTAIN-FIBER REPEATERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- MURPHY'SUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- MARTINS FOOD MARKET #6557Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- VALLEY HEALTH HEDGESVILLE FAMILY MEDICINEBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- EAGLE MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Ber-0607Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- Ber-0387Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- JTB MACHININGBrownfields · 2.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hedgesville'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 Hedgesville.
Total Sites
589
within ~10 miles of Hedgesville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hedgesville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hedgesville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hedgesville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 236 sites within ~10 miles of Hedgesville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Hedgesville
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 Hedgesville average
Your land is one point inside Hedgesville
Everything above resolves to Hedgesville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 84 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 Hedgesville Average
Hedgesville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Hedgesville
- ●One soil character for all of Hedgesville
- ●Frost dates read at Hedgesville's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hedgesville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hedgesville
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Three things about your lot that Hedgesville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hedgesville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hedgesville average
How we know this about Hedgesville
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 Hedgesville’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 Hedgesville
When does frost risk typically end in Hedgesville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hedgesville typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Hedgesville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hedgesville 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 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hedgesville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hedgesville sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 19, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hedgesville?
The federal record around Hedgesville is a meaningful one — 589 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (236), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Hedgesville?
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 Hedgesville's scale — its 7a band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hedgesville'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 Hedgesville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hedgesville's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 84 acres it covers and 589 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hedgesville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hedgesville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 2 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 589 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hedgesville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hedgesville's boundary and the 84 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hedgesville's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Hedgesvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hedgesville's 84 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Berkeley County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Berkeley 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 Berkeley County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hedgesville's 84 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hedgesville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 84 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Hedgesville-wide figureread your own land →