Pea Ridge, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pea Ridge, 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 Pea Ridge lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pea Ridge — the short answer
Pea Ridge, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 219 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~219
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Pea Ridge's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pea Ridge's 219-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pea Ridge
Each reading below is measured for Pea Ridge itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPea Ridge runs about 219 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
MeasuredPea Ridge 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 Pea Ridge is in
Pea Ridge sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pea Ridge's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cabell County.
What Grows in Pea Ridge
Every plant below cleared Pea Ridge's own zone 7a and its 219-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pea Ridge?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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 Pea Ridge
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pea Ridge checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 110 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pea Ridge
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pea Ridge. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ECO-FIRST INCBrownfields · 2000 ft
- BARBOURSVILLE CO 46137Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- AUTOZONE #4648Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- SPEEDWAY # 9926Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- KMART 3425Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- JEFFREY MUTH DBA MUTH'S AUTO CNTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SOHIO OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- FONDUK HONDAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- SHIVANI ENTERPRISE CORP. (US GAS AND FOOD)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- WVDOH - CABELL COUNTY HEADQUARTERSBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- REBOUND LLC - HEALTHSOUTH REHABILITATION HOSPITALBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- S/S LOC #29544Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pea Ridge'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 Pea Ridge.
Total Sites
680
within ~10 miles of Pea Ridge
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
10 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pea Ridge
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pea Ridge
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pea Ridge, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 10 sites within ~10 miles of Pea Ridge. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Pea Ridge
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 Pea Ridge
Everything above resolves to Pea Ridge as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Pea Ridge Average
Pea Ridge Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Pea Ridge
- ●One soil character for all of Pea Ridge
- ●Frost dates read at Pea Ridge's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pea Ridge's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pea Ridge
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pea Ridge, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pea Ridge averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pea Ridge — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pea Ridge average
How we know this about Pea Ridge
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 Pea Ridge’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 Pea Ridge
When does frost risk typically end in Pea Ridge?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pea Ridge typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Pea Ridge?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pea Ridge typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 219 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pea Ridge?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pea Ridge sees about 219 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 23, about 184 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pea Ridge?
The federal record around Pea Ridge is a meaningful one — 680 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (379), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.4 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 Pea Ridge?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pea Ridge's scale — its 7a band and its 219-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pea Ridge'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 Pea Ridge’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pea Ridge's own scale — its own ~219-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,484 acres it covers and 680 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pea Ridge's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pea Ridge's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 6 and the ~219-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 680 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pea Ridge, the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pea Ridge's boundary and the 1,484 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~219-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pea Ridge's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pea Ridge 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 Pea Ridge's 1,484 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cabell County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cabell 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 Cabell County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pea Ridge's 1,484 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pea Ridge you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,484 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 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 Pea Ridge-wide figureread your own land →