Ranson corporation, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Ranson corporation, 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 Ranson corporation lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Ranson corporation — the short answer
Ranson corporation, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Ranson corporation's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ranson corporation's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ranson corporation
Each reading below is measured for Ranson corporation itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRanson corporation runs about 213 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
MeasuredRanson corporation 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 Ranson corporation is in
Ranson corporation sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Ranson corporation's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jefferson County.
What Grows in Ranson corporation
Every plant below cleared Ranson corporation's own zone 7a and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ranson corporation?
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 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Ranson corporation
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Ranson corporation, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Ranson corporation
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ranson corporation. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Jef-0242Nitrate · 1800 ft
- Jef-0550Nitrate · 2100 ft
- Jef-0232Nitrate · 2100 ft
- Jef-0516Nitrate · 2600 ft
- Jef-0255Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- Jef-0266Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- Jef-0269Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- UFP RANSON LLCToxics Release Inventory · 1.0 mi
- 7-ELEVEN # 34688Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Jef-0245Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #11913Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- BADGER POWHATANUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ranson corporation'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 Ranson corporation.
Total Sites
906
within ~10 miles of Ranson corporation
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
8 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ranson corporation
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ranson corporation
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ranson corporation, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 567 sites within ~10 miles of Ranson corporation. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Ranson corporation
Everything above resolves to Ranson corporation as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Ranson corporation Average
Ranson corporation Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Ranson corporation
- ●One soil character for all of Ranson corporation
- ●Frost dates read at Ranson corporation's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ranson corporation's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Ranson corporation
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Ranson corporation, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Ranson corporation — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Ranson corporation
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 Ranson corporation’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 Ranson corporation
When does frost risk typically end in Ranson corporation?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ranson corporation typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Ranson corporation?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ranson corporation typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ranson corporation?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ranson corporation sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 21, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ranson corporation?
The federal record around Ranson corporation is a meaningful one — 906 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (567), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Ranson corporation?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ranson corporation's scale — its 7a band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ranson corporation'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 Ranson corporation’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Ranson corporation's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,186 acres it covers and 906 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ranson corporation's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Ranson corporation's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 4 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 906 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ranson corporation, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ranson corporation's boundary and the 5,186 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ranson corporation's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Ranson corporationlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Ranson corporation's 5,186 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jefferson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jefferson 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 Jefferson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Ranson corporation's 5,186 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ranson corporation you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,186 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Ranson corporation-wide figureread your own land →