Stollings, 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 Stollings, 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 Stollings lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Stollings — the short answer
Stollings, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 232 days between hard freezes, across 230 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~232
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 230 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 Stollings's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stollings's 232-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stollings
Each reading below is measured for Stollings itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStollings runs about 232 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
MeasuredStollings 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 Stollings is in
Stollings sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Stollings's own centroid rather than borrowed from Logan County.
What Grows in Stollings
Every plant below cleared Stollings's own zone 7a and its 232-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Stollings?
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 Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — 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 Stollings
Survey cells within 31 miles of Stollings checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 80 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Stollings
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stollings. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- EMS TIRE PROSBrownfields · 2100 ft
- HEALTHY HABITS WELLNESS CENTERBrownfields · 2100 ft
- HTRX LLC DBA HOMETOWN RX PHARMACYBrownfields · 2100 ft
- 7-ELEVEN 35919Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- CRADDOCK MACHINE SHOPBrownfields · 2100 ft
- MOLLETT WELDING AND MINE SERVICE INCBrownfields · 2200 ft
- G0 MART STORE #091Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- MAINTENANCE SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SPEEDWAY # 9199Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SPEEDWAY #9199Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- BUCANE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- A 1 SVC SHOP INCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Stollings'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 Stollings.
Total Sites
296
within ~10 miles of Stollings
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stollings
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stollings
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Stollings, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 208 sites within ~10 miles of Stollings. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Stollings
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Your land is one point inside Stollings
Everything above resolves to Stollings as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 230 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 Stollings Average
Stollings Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Stollings
- ●One soil character for all of Stollings
- ●Frost dates read at Stollings's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stollings's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Stollings
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Stollings, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Stollings averages can't show:
We read public map data around Stollings — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Stollings average
How we know this about Stollings
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 Stollings’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 Stollings
When does frost risk typically end in Stollings?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stollings typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Stollings?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stollings typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 232 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stollings?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stollings sees about 232 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 30, about 197 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stollings?
The federal record around Stollings is a meaningful one — 296 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (208), 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 Stollings?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Stollings's scale — its 7a band and its 232-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stollings'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 Stollings’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Stollings's own scale — its own ~232-day season between 28°F freezes, the 230 acres it covers and 296 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stollings's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stollings's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 13 and the ~232-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 296 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stollings, the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stollings's boundary and the 230 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~232-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Stollings's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Stollings 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 Stollings's 230 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Logan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Logan 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 Logan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Stollings's 230 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stollings you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 230 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 Stollings-wide figureread your own land →
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