New Martinsville, 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.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Martinsville, 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 New Martinsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Martinsville — the short answer
New Martinsville, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 207 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~207
- 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 New Martinsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Martinsville's 207-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Martinsville
Each reading below is measured for New Martinsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Martinsville runs about 207 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
MeasuredNew Martinsville 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 New Martinsville is in
New Martinsville sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Martinsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wetzel County.
What Grows in New Martinsville
Every plant below cleared New Martinsville's own zone 6b and its 207-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Martinsville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around New Martinsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 28 miles from New Martinsville, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Martinsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Martinsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MAGNOLIA HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- TOYS N JOYSUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- WETZEL COUNTY LANDFILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- TAYLORS EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- OLD NAPA STORE (NEW RITE-AID)Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- PEAKE'S EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- MULLETT & MULLETTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- WETZEL COUNTY BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- CLARENCE W BAKERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- CITY OF NEW MARTINSVILLE FIRE DEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- JACKSONS AUTO REPAIR LLCBrownfields · 1200 ft
- TRACTOR SUPPLY CO #701Brownfields · 1300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Martinsville'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 New Martinsville.
Total Sites
203
within ~10 miles of New Martinsville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Martinsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Martinsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Martinsville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of New Martinsville — Toxics Release Inventory (15 sites) and Superfund (3 sites). 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in New Martinsville
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 New Martinsville
Everything above resolves to New Martinsville 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 New Martinsville Average
New Martinsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across New Martinsville
- ●One soil character for all of New Martinsville
- ●Frost dates read at New Martinsville's scale: Apr 10 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Martinsville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Martinsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Martinsville, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Martinsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Martinsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Martinsville average
How we know this about New Martinsville
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 New Martinsville’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 New Martinsville
When does frost risk typically end in New Martinsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Martinsville typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in New Martinsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Martinsville typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 207 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Martinsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Martinsville sees about 207 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 20, about 172 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Martinsville?
The federal record around New Martinsville is a meaningful one — 203 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (105), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 New Martinsville?
From about Oct 4 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 Nov 3 (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 Nov 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Martinsville's scale — its 6b band and its 207-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Martinsville'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 New Martinsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Martinsville's own scale — its own ~207-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,711 acres it covers and 203 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Martinsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Martinsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Nov 3 and the ~207-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 203 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Martinsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Martinsville's boundary and the 1,711 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~207-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Martinsville's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of New Martinsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Martinsville's 1,711 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wetzel County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wetzel 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 Wetzel County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Martinsville's 1,711 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Martinsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,711 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 New Martinsville-wide figureread your own land →
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