Lewisburg, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lewisburg, 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 Lewisburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lewisburg — the short answer
Lewisburg, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 191 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~191
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 2K 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 Lewisburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lewisburg's 191-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lewisburg
Each reading below is measured for Lewisburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLewisburg runs about 191 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
MeasuredLewisburg 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 Lewisburg is in
Lewisburg sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lewisburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Greenbrier County.
What Grows in Lewisburg
Every plant below cleared Lewisburg's own zone 6b and its 191-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lewisburg?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Lewisburg
Survey cells within 31 miles of Lewisburg checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 43 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lewisburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lewisburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- COLONIAL GREENBRIER COLLISION CENTERBrownfields · 250 ft
- ROBERT C BYRD CLINICBrownfields · 600 ft
- AUTOZONE #4647Brownfields · 750 ft
- GO MART STORE #098Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- WALMART SUPERCENTER #1499Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- WALMART SUPERCENTER #1499Brownfields · 1100 ft
- M & J OPERATIONS C/O CROSSAMERICA - WV002Brownfields · 1100 ft
- LOWE'S OF LEWISBURG, WV #2507Brownfields · 1100 ft
- WV 0002Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- WHITEAKER'S EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- BILL LEWIS MOTOR INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- LEWISBURG DETACHMENT - WV ST POLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lewisburg'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 Lewisburg.
Total Sites
278
within ~10 miles of Lewisburg
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lewisburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lewisburg
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
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Your land is one point inside Lewisburg
Everything above resolves to Lewisburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 city 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 Lewisburg Average
Lewisburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lewisburg
- ●One soil character for all of Lewisburg
- ●Frost dates read at Lewisburg's scale: Apr 15 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lewisburg's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lewisburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lewisburg, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Lewisburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Lewisburg
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Lewisburg’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Lewisburg
When does frost risk typically end in Lewisburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lewisburg typically lands around Apr 15, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Lewisburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lewisburg typically arrives around Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 9, so the watching starts about Sep 23 — about 191 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lewisburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lewisburg sees about 191 frost-free days — roughly Apr 15 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 6 to Oct 9, about 156 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lewisburg?
The federal record around Lewisburg is a meaningful one — 278 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (145), the nearest Brownfields 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 Lewisburg?
From about Sep 23 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lewisburg's scale — its 6b band and its 191-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lewisburg'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 Lewisburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lewisburg's own scale — its own ~191-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,434 acres it covers and 278 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lewisburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lewisburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 15 and Oct 23 and the ~191-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 278 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lewisburg, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lewisburg's boundary and the 2,434 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~191-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lewisburg's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Lewisburg 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 Lewisburg's 2,434 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Greenbrier County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Greenbrier 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 Greenbrier County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lewisburg's 2,434 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lewisburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,434 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Lewisburg-wide figureread your own land →
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