Meadow Bridge, 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.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Meadow Bridge, 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 Meadow Bridge lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Meadow Bridge — the short answer
Meadow Bridge, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 200 days between hard freezes, across 240 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~200
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 240 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 Meadow Bridge's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Meadow Bridge's 200-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Meadow Bridge
Each reading below is measured for Meadow Bridge itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMeadow Bridge runs about 200 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
MeasuredMeadow Bridge 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 Meadow Bridge is in
Meadow Bridge sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Meadow Bridge's own centroid rather than borrowed from Fayette County.
What Grows in Meadow Bridge
Every plant below cleared Meadow Bridge's own zone 6b and its 200-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Meadow Bridge?
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 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — 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 Meadow Bridge
Survey cells within 31 miles of Meadow Bridge checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 53 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Meadow Bridge
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Meadow Bridge. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MEADOW BRIDGE HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- HICKS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- LIFT STATION NO 5Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- LIFT STATION NO 6 - MEADOW BRIDGE HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- VERNIE GWINNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- CRANE RESTAURANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- BROWNS CAFE (FORMER)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- ROMINE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- WILDCART MINI MART (FORMER)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- GENESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- WALTER'S BETTERWAY LTDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- LOU'S (*SJ/REG/IN 94 UP TO 1990)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Meadow Bridge'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 Meadow Bridge.
Total Sites
133
within ~10 miles of Meadow Bridge
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Meadow Bridge
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Meadow Bridge
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Meadow Bridge, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 42 sites within ~10 miles of Meadow Bridge. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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).
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Your land is one point inside Meadow Bridge
Everything above resolves to Meadow Bridge as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 240 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 Meadow Bridge Average
Meadow Bridge Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Meadow Bridge
- ●One soil character for all of Meadow Bridge
- ●Frost dates read at Meadow Bridge's scale: Apr 11 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Meadow Bridge's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Meadow Bridge
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Meadow Bridge, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Meadow Bridge averages can't show:
We read public map data around Meadow Bridge — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Meadow Bridge
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 Meadow Bridge’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 Meadow Bridge
When does frost risk typically end in Meadow Bridge?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Meadow Bridge typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Meadow Bridge?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Meadow Bridge typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 200 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Meadow Bridge?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Meadow Bridge sees about 200 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 14, about 165 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Meadow Bridge?
The federal record around Meadow Bridge shows 133 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (76), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Meadow Bridge?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Meadow Bridge's scale — its 6b band and its 200-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Meadow Bridge'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 Meadow Bridge’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Meadow Bridge's own scale — its own ~200-day season between 28°F freezes, the 240 acres it covers and 133 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Meadow Bridge's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Meadow Bridge's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Oct 28 and the ~200-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 133 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Meadow Bridge, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Meadow Bridge's boundary and the 240 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~200-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Meadow Bridge's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Meadow Bridge 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 Meadow Bridge's 240 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Fayette County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Fayette 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 Fayette County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Meadow Bridge's 240 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Meadow Bridge you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 240 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 Meadow Bridge-wide figureread your own land →
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