Hepzibah, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Hepzibah, 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 Hepzibah 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 Hepzibah — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Hepzibah — the short answer
Hepzibah, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 205 days between hard freezes, across 590 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~205
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 590 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 Hepzibah's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hepzibah's 205-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hepzibah
Each reading below is measured for Hepzibah itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHepzibah runs about 205 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
MeasuredHepzibah 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 Hepzibah is in
Hepzibah sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hepzibah's own centroid rather than borrowed from Harrison County.
What Grows in Hepzibah
Every plant below cleared Hepzibah's own zone 6b and its 205-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hepzibah?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Hepzibah
Spotted lanternfly documented 18 miles from Hepzibah, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hepzibah
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hepzibah. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AURORA ACQUISITION CORPORATIONToxics Release Inventory · 900 ft
- ENTERPRISE SANITATIONToxics Release Inventory · 1100 ft
- BLAIR MOTOR SUPPLY COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- MEADOWBROOK COMPANYToxics Release Inventory · 1.0 mi
- AML RECLAMATION PROJECT / DAWMONTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- MEADOWBROOK COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- LARRY BOCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- HARRISON POWER STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- BOB'S SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- FRESA CONSTRUCTION COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- WV DOH/ARLINGTON BRIDGE SITEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- PETE DYE GOLF CLUBBrownfields · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hepzibah'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 Hepzibah.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hepzibah
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hepzibah
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hepzibah, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 407 sites within ~10 miles of Hepzibah. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Hepzibah
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 Hepzibah average
Your land is one point inside Hepzibah
Everything above resolves to Hepzibah as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 590 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 Hepzibah Average
Hepzibah Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Hepzibah
- ●One soil character for all of Hepzibah
- ●Frost dates read at Hepzibah's scale: Apr 9 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hepzibah's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Hepzibah
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hepzibah, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hepzibah averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hepzibah — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hepzibah average
How we know this about Hepzibah
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 Hepzibah’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 Hepzibah
When does frost risk typically end in Hepzibah?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hepzibah typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Hepzibah?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hepzibah typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 205 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hepzibah?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hepzibah sees about 205 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 17, about 170 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hepzibah?
The federal record around Hepzibah is a meaningful one — 634 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (407), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.2 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 Hepzibah?
From about Oct 1 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 Oct 31 (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 Oct 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hepzibah's scale — its 6b band and its 205-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hepzibah'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 Hepzibah’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hepzibah's own scale — its own ~205-day season between 28°F freezes, the 590 acres it covers and 634 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hepzibah's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hepzibah's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Oct 31 and the ~205-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 634 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hepzibah, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hepzibah's boundary and the 590 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~205-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hepzibah's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Hepzibahlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hepzibah's 590 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 Hepzibah's 590 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hepzibah you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 590 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.2 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 Hepzibah-wide figureread your own land →
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