Womelsdorf (Coalton), West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Womelsdorf (Coalton), 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 Womelsdorf (Coalton) lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Womelsdorf (Coalton) — the short answer
Womelsdorf (Coalton), West Virginia: USDA zone 6a, about 181 days between hard freezes, across 265 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~181
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 265 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 6a is Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s 181-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Womelsdorf (Coalton)
Each reading below is measured for Womelsdorf (Coalton) itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWomelsdorf (Coalton) runs about 181 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
MeasuredWomelsdorf (Coalton) sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Womelsdorf (Coalton) is in
Womelsdorf (Coalton) sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Randolph County is mostly Ridge and Valley. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Womelsdorf (Coalton)
Every plant below cleared Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s own zone 6a and its 181-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Womelsdorf (Coalton)?
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 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 21 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Womelsdorf (Coalton)
Survey cells within 31 miles of Womelsdorf (Coalton) checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 33 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Womelsdorf (Coalton)
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Womelsdorf (Coalton). Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- COALTON SUB STA 08422Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- ROSS TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- SLAYTON'S STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- CHARLES J GIRARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- ALLEGHENY WOOD PRODUCTS INC MILL 3Toxics Release Inventory · 2.3 mi
- ALAMOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- COALTON SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- NELLIE A ZIRKLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- BIG JIM'S COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- R W YEAGER TRUCKING CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- Ran-0156Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- Ran-0157Nitrate · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Womelsdorf (Coalton)'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 Womelsdorf (Coalton).
Total Sites
251
within ~10 miles of Womelsdorf (Coalton)
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Womelsdorf (Coalton)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Womelsdorf (Coalton)
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Womelsdorf (Coalton), two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Womelsdorf (Coalton) — PFAS (4 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (156 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Womelsdorf (Coalton)
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Your land is one point inside Womelsdorf (Coalton)
Everything above resolves to Womelsdorf (Coalton) as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 265 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 Womelsdorf (Coalton) Average
Womelsdorf (Coalton) Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Womelsdorf (Coalton)
- ●One soil character for all of Womelsdorf (Coalton)
- ●Frost dates read at Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s scale: Apr 23 to Oct 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Womelsdorf (Coalton)
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How we know this about Womelsdorf (Coalton)
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 Womelsdorf (Coalton)’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 Womelsdorf (Coalton)
When does frost risk typically end in Womelsdorf (Coalton)?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Womelsdorf (Coalton) typically lands around Apr 23, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Womelsdorf (Coalton)?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Womelsdorf (Coalton) typically arrives around Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 7, so the watching starts about Sep 21 — about 181 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Womelsdorf (Coalton)?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Womelsdorf (Coalton) sees about 181 frost-free days — roughly Apr 23 through Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 14 to Oct 7, about 146 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Womelsdorf (Coalton)?
The federal record around Womelsdorf (Coalton) is a meaningful one — 251 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (156), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Womelsdorf (Coalton)?
From about Sep 21 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s scale — its 6a band and its 181-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Womelsdorf (Coalton)'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 Womelsdorf (Coalton)’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s own scale — its own ~181-day season between 28°F freezes, the 265 acres it covers and 251 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 23 and Oct 21 and the ~181-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 251 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Womelsdorf (Coalton), the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s boundary and the 265 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~181-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Womelsdorf (Coalton) sits in the Central Appalachians — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Womelsdorf (Coalton) 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 Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s 265 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Randolph County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Randolph 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 Randolph County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Womelsdorf (Coalton)'s 265 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Womelsdorf (Coalton) you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 265 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Womelsdorf (Coalton)-wide figureread your own land →