Beaverton, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Beaverton, 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 Beaverton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Beaverton — the short answer
Beaverton, Alabama: USDA zone 8a, about 231 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~231
- 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 Beaverton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beaverton's 231-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beaverton
Each reading below is measured for Beaverton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeaverton runs about 231 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
MeasuredBeaverton 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 Beaverton is in
Beaverton sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Beaverton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lamar County.
What Grows in Beaverton
Every plant below cleared Beaverton's own zone 8a and its 231-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beaverton?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Beaverton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beaverton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BEAVERTON GROUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Well F-5 JUANITA THREET Lamar Cnty ALNitrate · 1900 ft
- SHUGS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- SOUTHERN ENERGY HOMES, INC. DBA CLAYTON SUPPLYBrownfields · 4.3 mi
- HYSTER-YALE GROUP, INC (BOLZONI-AURAMO)Toxics Release Inventory · 4.8 mi
- HYSTER-YALE GROUP, INC (BOLZONI-AURAMO)Brownfields · 4.8 mi
- PATRIOT HOMES INC PINNACLE HOMES DIVToxics Release Inventory · 5.0 mi
- Well B-6 CAGER STANFORD Lamar Cnty ALNitrate · 5.0 mi
- BILLY MOOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- SAM SPRUIELL GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- NIX TRUCK SERVICEBrownfields · 6.1 mi
- ALABAMA OAK FLOORING COUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beaverton'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 Beaverton.
Total Sites
74
within ~10 miles of Beaverton
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beaverton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beaverton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beaverton, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 5 sites within ~10 miles of Beaverton. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Beaverton
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 Beaverton average
Your land is one point inside Beaverton
Everything above resolves to Beaverton 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 Beaverton Average
Beaverton Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Beaverton
- ●One soil character for all of Beaverton
- ●Frost dates read at Beaverton's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beaverton's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beaverton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beaverton, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beaverton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beaverton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beaverton average
How we know this about Beaverton
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 Beaverton’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 Beaverton
When does frost risk typically end in Beaverton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beaverton typically lands around Mar 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Beaverton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beaverton typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 231 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beaverton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beaverton sees about 231 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 28, about 196 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beaverton?
The federal record around Beaverton shows 74 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (43), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Beaverton?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beaverton's scale — its 8a band and its 231-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beaverton'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 Beaverton’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Beaverton's own scale — its own ~231-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,936 acres it covers and 74 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beaverton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beaverton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 11 and the ~231-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 74 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beaverton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beaverton's boundary and the 2,936 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~231-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Beaverton's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beaverton's 2,936 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lamar County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lamar 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 Lamar County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beaverton's 2,936 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beaverton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,936 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Beaverton-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across AlabamaBeaverton sits outside our named growing regions, so Alabama as a whole is its closest context here.