Teays Valley, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Teays Valley, 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 Teays Valley lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Teays Valley — the short answer
Teays Valley, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- 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 Teays Valley's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Teays Valley's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Teays Valley
Each reading below is measured for Teays Valley itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTeays Valley runs about 221 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
MeasuredTeays Valley 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 Teays Valley is in
Teays Valley sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Teays Valley's own centroid rather than borrowed from Putnam County.
What Grows in Teays Valley
Every plant below cleared Teays Valley's own zone 7a and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Teays Valley?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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 Teays Valley
Survey cells within 31 miles of Teays Valley checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 107 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Teays Valley
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Teays Valley. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LITTLE GENERAL # 5115Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- INLAND PRODUCTS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- PUTNAM FARM & LAND CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- PROLOGICUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- TRUGREEN CHEMLAWNBrownfields · 2500 ft
- INTERNATIONAL COAL GROUPBrownfields · 2500 ft
- HOME DEPOT STORE #8429Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #17888Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- TARGET STORE T2897Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- KROGER E-784 FUEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #3334Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- PETCO STORE #3832Brownfields · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Teays Valley'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 Teays Valley.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Teays Valley
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Teays Valley
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Teays Valley, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 12 sites within ~10 miles of Teays Valley. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Teays Valley
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 Teays Valley average
Your land is one point inside Teays Valley
Everything above resolves to Teays Valley 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 Teays Valley Average
Teays Valley Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Teays Valley
- ●One soil character for all of Teays Valley
- ●Frost dates read at Teays Valley's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Teays Valley's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Teays Valley
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Teays Valley, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Teays Valley averages can't show:
We read public map data around Teays Valley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Teays Valley average
How we know this about Teays Valley
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 Teays Valley’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 Teays Valley
When does frost risk typically end in Teays Valley?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Teays Valley typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Teays Valley?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Teays Valley typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Teays Valley?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Teays Valley sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 24, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Teays Valley?
The federal record around Teays Valley is a meaningful one — 664 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (299), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Teays Valley?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Teays Valley's scale — its 7a band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Teays Valley'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 Teays Valley’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Teays Valley's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,648 acres it covers and 664 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Teays Valley's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Teays Valley's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 7 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 664 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Teays Valley, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Teays Valley's boundary and the 4,648 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Teays Valley's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Teays Valley 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 Teays Valley's 4,648 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Putnam County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Putnam 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 Putnam County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Teays Valley's 4,648 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Teays Valley you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,648 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Teays Valley-wide figureread your own land →