Huttonsville, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Huttonsville, 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 Huttonsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Huttonsville — the short answer
Huttonsville, West Virginia: USDA zone 6a, about 181 days between hard freezes, across 194 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~181
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 194 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 6a is Huttonsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Huttonsville's 181-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Huttonsville
Each reading below is measured for Huttonsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHuttonsville runs about 181 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredHuttonsville sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Huttonsville is in
Huttonsville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Huttonsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Randolph County.
What Grows in Huttonsville
Every plant below cleared Huttonsville's own zone 6a and its 181-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Huttonsville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 21 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Huttonsville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Huttonsville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 45 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Huttonsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Huttonsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PAR MAR #45Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- VALLEY HEALTH CARE PHARMACYBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- PROJECT U-342-219Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- DAISY QUICKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- TYGARTS VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- OLD SERVICE STATION/NO FORMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- K BRENT SHIFLETTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- MOUNTAIN STATE TELEPHONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- HAYES SCOTT RUSTIC FENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- DEAN'S TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- MILL CREEK SUB STA 08424Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- COLLETTS SERV CNTREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Huttonsville'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 Huttonsville.
Total Sites
53
within ~10 miles of Huttonsville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Huttonsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Huttonsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Huttonsville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of Huttonsville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Huttonsville
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 Huttonsville
Everything above resolves to Huttonsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 194 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 Huttonsville Average
Huttonsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Huttonsville
- ●One soil character for all of Huttonsville
- ●Frost dates read at Huttonsville's scale: Apr 23 to Oct 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Huttonsville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Huttonsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Huttonsville, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Huttonsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Huttonsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Huttonsville average
How we know this about Huttonsville
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 Huttonsville’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 Huttonsville
When does frost risk typically end in Huttonsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Huttonsville typically lands around Apr 23, 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 May 14.
When is the first frost in Huttonsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Huttonsville typically arrives around Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 7, so the watching starts about Sep 21 — about 181 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Huttonsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Huttonsville sees about 181 frost-free days — roughly Apr 23 through Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 14 to Oct 7, about 146 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Huttonsville?
The federal record around Huttonsville shows 53 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (30), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Huttonsville?
From about Sep 21 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Huttonsville's scale — its 6a band and its 181-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Huttonsville'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 Huttonsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Huttonsville's own scale — its own ~181-day season between 28°F freezes, the 194 acres it covers and 53 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Huttonsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Huttonsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 23 and Oct 21 and the ~181-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 53 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Huttonsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Huttonsville's boundary and the 194 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~181-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Huttonsville's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Huttonsville 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 Huttonsville's 194 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Randolph County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Randolph 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 Randolph County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Huttonsville's 194 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Huttonsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 194 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Huttonsville-wide figureread your own land →