Valley Grove, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Valley Grove, 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 Valley Grove lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Valley Grove — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Valley Grove — the short answer
Valley Grove, West Virginia: USDA zone 6b, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 350 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 350 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 Valley Grove's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Valley Grove's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Valley Grove
Each reading below is measured for Valley Grove itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredValley Grove runs about 208 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
MeasuredValley Grove 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 Valley Grove is in
Valley Grove sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Valley Grove's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ohio County.
What Grows in Valley Grove
Every plant below cleared Valley Grove's own zone 6b and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Valley Grove?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Valley Grove
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Valley Grove, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Valley Grove
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Valley Grove. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PHILABAUMS GARAGEBrownfields · 1100 ft
- TUNNEL RIDGE LLCBrownfields · 2000 ft
- WVDOH - TRIDELPHIA EQUIP SHOPBrownfields · 2000 ft
- FRYE'S STATE LINE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HOCKS BAR & GRILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- TRAVEL CENTERS OF AMERICABrownfields · 1.2 mi
- WHEELING TRAVEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- P I E NATIONWIDE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- CONSOLIDATED TRUCKSTOPS/TRUCK CIUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- SILGAN PLASTICSBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- TEKNI PLEXBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- WINDMILL MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Valley Grove'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 Valley Grove.
Total Sites
514
within ~10 miles of Valley Grove
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Valley Grove
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Valley Grove
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Valley Grove
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Valley Grove
Everything above resolves to Valley Grove as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 350 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 Valley Grove Average
Valley Grove Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Valley Grove
- ●One soil character for all of Valley Grove
- ●Frost dates read at Valley Grove's scale: Apr 7 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Valley Grove's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Valley Grove
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Valley Grove, West Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Valley Grove averages can't show:
We read public map data around Valley Grove — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Valley Grove
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 Valley Grove’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 Valley Grove
When does frost risk typically end in Valley Grove?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Valley Grove typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Valley Grove?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Valley Grove typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Valley Grove?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Valley Grove sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 18, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Valley Grove?
The federal record around Valley Grove is a meaningful one — 514 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (292), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Valley Grove?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Valley Grove's scale — its 6b band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Valley Grove'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 Valley Grove’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Valley Grove's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 350 acres it covers and 514 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Valley Grove's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Valley Grove's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Nov 1 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 514 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Valley Grove, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Valley Grove's boundary and the 350 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Valley Grove's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Valley Grovelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Valley Grove's 350 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ohio County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ohio 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 Ohio County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Valley Grove's 350 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Valley Grove you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 350 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Valley Grove-wide figureread your own land →
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