Baileyton, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Baileyton, 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 Baileyton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Baileyton — the short answer
Baileyton, Alabama: USDA zone 8a, about 252 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~252
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 8a is Baileyton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Baileyton's 252-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Baileyton
Each reading below is measured for Baileyton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBaileyton runs about 252 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
MeasuredBaileyton sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Baileyton is in
Baileyton sits in the Southwestern Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Baileyton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cullman County.
What Grows in Baileyton
Every plant below cleared Baileyton's own zone 8a and its 252-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Baileyton?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Baileyton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Baileyton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BAILEY GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- WALKER BROTHERS LUMBER YARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- BAILEYTON SUPERMARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BAILEYTON GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- BERRY RASCO FARMCAFO · 2300 ft
- C & R HAYNES FARMCAFO · 2.0 mi
- CARTER FARMCAFO · 2.0 mi
- ADAM DAVISCAFO · 2.1 mi
- RACEWAY SERVICE STATION #857Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- T M GORHAMUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- BROCK EGG FARM FAIRVIEWUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- BILLY GILLEYCAFO · 2.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Baileyton'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 Baileyton.
Total Sites
186
within ~10 miles of Baileyton
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Baileyton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Baileyton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Baileyton, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 68 sites within ~10 miles of Baileyton. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Baileyton
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 Baileyton
Everything above resolves to Baileyton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Baileyton Average
Baileyton Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Baileyton
- ●One soil character for all of Baileyton
- ●Frost dates read at Baileyton's scale: Mar 14 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Baileyton's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Baileyton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Baileyton
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 Baileyton’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 Baileyton
When does frost risk typically end in Baileyton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Baileyton typically lands around Mar 14, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Baileyton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Baileyton typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 252 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Baileyton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Baileyton sees about 252 frost-free days — roughly Mar 14 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 4 to Nov 7, about 217 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Baileyton?
The federal record around Baileyton is a meaningful one — 186 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (84), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Baileyton?
From about Oct 22 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 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 Nov 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Baileyton's scale — its 8a band and its 252-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Baileyton'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 Baileyton’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Baileyton's own scale — its own ~252-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,363 acres it covers and 186 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Baileyton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Baileyton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 14 and Nov 21 and the ~252-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 186 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Baileyton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Baileyton's boundary and the 3,363 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~252-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Baileyton's own centroid, the Southwestern AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Baileyton's 3,363 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cullman County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cullman County
- The growing challenges every Alabama grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Alabama
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Cullman County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Baileyton's 3,363 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Baileyton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,363 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Baileyton-wide figureread your own land →
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