Lashmeet, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Lashmeet, 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 Lashmeet lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lashmeet — the short answer
Lashmeet, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 480 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 480 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 Lashmeet's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lashmeet's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lashmeet
Each reading below is measured for Lashmeet itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLashmeet runs about 208 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
MeasuredLashmeet 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 Lashmeet is in
Lashmeet sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lashmeet's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mercer County.
What Grows in Lashmeet
Every plant below cleared Lashmeet's own zone 7a and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lashmeet?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — 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 Lashmeet
Survey cells within 31 miles of Lashmeet checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 34 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lashmeet
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lashmeet. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- L & M MARKETBrownfields · 1000 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #13715Brownfields · 1100 ft
- M & C MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- D L SERVICES MACHINEBrownfields · 1400 ft
- FORMER GATE'S MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- VERGIL GROSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- FOREST FOLEYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- ODELL'S TEXACO (RICK'S TEXACO)Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- SHAWNEE PIZZA 1Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- WRIGHT'S MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- BLUEWELL PSDPFAS · 1.3 mi
- MATOAKA VOL FIRE DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lashmeet'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 Lashmeet.
Total Sites
345
within ~10 miles of Lashmeet
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lashmeet
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lashmeet
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lashmeet, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of Lashmeet. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Lashmeet
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 Lashmeet average
Your land is one point inside Lashmeet
Everything above resolves to Lashmeet as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 480 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 Lashmeet Average
Lashmeet Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Lashmeet
- ●One soil character for all of Lashmeet
- ●Frost dates read at Lashmeet's scale: Apr 4 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lashmeet's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lashmeet
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lashmeet, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lashmeet averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lashmeet — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lashmeet average
How we know this about Lashmeet
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 Lashmeet’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 Lashmeet
When does frost risk typically end in Lashmeet?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lashmeet typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Lashmeet?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lashmeet typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lashmeet?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lashmeet sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 15, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lashmeet?
The federal record around Lashmeet is a meaningful one — 345 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (189), the nearest Brownfields 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 Lashmeet?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lashmeet's scale — its 7a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lashmeet'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 Lashmeet’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lashmeet's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 480 acres it covers and 345 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lashmeet's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lashmeet's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Oct 29 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 345 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lashmeet, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lashmeet's boundary and the 480 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lashmeet's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Lashmeet 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 Lashmeet's 480 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mercer County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mercer 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 Mercer County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lashmeet's 480 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lashmeet you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 480 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Lashmeet-wide figureread your own land →
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