Rhodell, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Rhodell, 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 Rhodell lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Rhodell — the short answer
Rhodell, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 199 days between hard freezes, across 201 acres of town.
- 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)
- Oct 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~199
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 201 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 Rhodell's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rhodell's 199-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rhodell
Each reading below is measured for Rhodell itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRhodell runs about 199 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredRhodell 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 Rhodell is in
Rhodell sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Rhodell's own centroid rather than borrowed from Raleigh County.
What Grows in Rhodell
Every plant below cleared Rhodell's own zone 6b and its 199-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rhodell?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 Oct 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Rhodell
Survey cells within 31 miles of Rhodell checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 48 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Rhodell
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rhodell. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CHARLES SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- NORTH STAR ONE LLCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- FORMER WANNA STOP INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- EAST GULF PREPARATION PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 1.5 mi
- EASTERN WYOMING PSD STEPHENSON WTPPFAS · 2.6 mi
- RAY STEWARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- NORMAN'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- POMPIE'S SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- FAIRVIEW SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- MABEN SOCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- 487-031203 MULLINS MIDDLE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Rhodell'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 Rhodell.
Total Sites
146
within ~10 miles of Rhodell
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Rhodell
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rhodell
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Rhodell, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 3 sites within ~10 miles of Rhodell. 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 Rhodell
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Your land is one point inside Rhodell
Everything above resolves to Rhodell as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 201 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 Rhodell Average
Rhodell Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Rhodell
- ●One soil character for all of Rhodell
- ●Frost dates read at Rhodell's scale: Apr 10 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rhodell's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Rhodell
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Rhodell, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Rhodell averages can't show:
We read public map data around Rhodell — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rhodell average
How we know this about Rhodell
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 Rhodell’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 Rhodell
When does frost risk typically end in Rhodell?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rhodell 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 Rhodell?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rhodell typically arrives around Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 12, so the watching starts about Sep 26 — about 199 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rhodell?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rhodell sees about 199 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 12, about 164 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rhodell?
The federal record around Rhodell shows 146 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (89), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles 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 Rhodell?
From about Sep 26 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Rhodell's scale — its 6b band and its 199-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rhodell'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 Rhodell’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Rhodell's own scale — its own ~199-day season between 28°F freezes, the 201 acres it covers and 146 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rhodell's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Rhodell's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Oct 26 and the ~199-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 146 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rhodell, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rhodell's boundary and the 201 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~199-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Rhodell's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Rhodell 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 Rhodell's 201 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Raleigh County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Raleigh 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 Raleigh County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rhodell's 201 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rhodell you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 201 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Rhodell-wide figureread your own land →
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