Reedsville, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Reedsville, 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 Reedsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Reedsville — the short answer
Reedsville, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 200 days between hard freezes, across 417 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~200
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 417 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 Reedsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Reedsville's 200-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Reedsville
Each reading below is measured for Reedsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredReedsville 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
MeasuredReedsville 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 Reedsville is in
Reedsville sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Reedsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Preston County.
What Grows in Reedsville
Every plant below cleared Reedsville'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 Reedsville?
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 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — 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 Reedsville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Reedsville, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Reedsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Reedsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PRESTON COUNTY PSD 1PFAS · 1500 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #9146Brownfields · 1700 ft
- SUPERIOR FIBERS LLCBrownfields · 1800 ft
- SUPERIOR FIBERS LLCToxics Release Inventory · 1800 ft
- VALLEY PHARMACYBrownfields · 2300 ft
- PRESTON MEMORIAL URGENT CAREBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- WVU HOSPITALS INC - PRESTON COUNTY PEDIATRIC & INTERNAL MEDICINEBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- J BENNETT OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT BUILDINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- JENNMAR CORP OF WVUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- HANDI-STOP GROCERY (*SJ/REGALL)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- S & K SANITATIONBrownfields · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Reedsville'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 Reedsville.
Total Sites
252
within ~10 miles of Reedsville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Reedsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Reedsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Reedsville, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 5 sites within ~10 miles of Reedsville. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Reedsville
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Reedsville average
Your land is one point inside Reedsville
Everything above resolves to Reedsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 417 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 Reedsville Average
Reedsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Reedsville
- ●One soil character for all of Reedsville
- ●Frost dates read at Reedsville's scale: Apr 13 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Reedsville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Reedsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Reedsville, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Reedsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Reedsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Reedsville average
How we know this about Reedsville
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 Reedsville’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 Reedsville
When does frost risk typically end in Reedsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Reedsville typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Reedsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Reedsville typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 200 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Reedsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Reedsville sees about 200 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 16, about 165 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Reedsville?
The federal record around Reedsville is a meaningful one — 252 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (139), the nearest PFAS 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 Reedsville?
From about Sep 30 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Reedsville's scale — its 6b band and its 200-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Reedsville'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 Reedsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Reedsville's own scale — its own ~200-day season between 28°F freezes, the 417 acres it covers and 252 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Reedsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Reedsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Oct 30 and the ~200-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 252 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Reedsville, the closest PFAS record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Reedsville's boundary and the 417 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 Reedsville's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Reedsvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Reedsville's 417 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Preston County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Preston 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 Preston County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Reedsville's 417 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Reedsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 417 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS 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 Reedsville-wide figureread your own land →
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