Belgreen, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Belgreen, 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 Belgreen lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Belgreen — the short answer
Belgreen, Alabama: USDA zone 7b, about 242 days between hard freezes, across 786 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~242
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 786 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 7b is Belgreen's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Belgreen's 242-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Belgreen
Each reading below is measured for Belgreen itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBelgreen runs about 242 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
MeasuredBelgreen sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Belgreen is in
Belgreen sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Belgreen's own centroid rather than borrowed from Franklin County.
What Grows in Belgreen
Every plant below cleared Belgreen's own zone 7b and its 242-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Belgreen?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Belgreen
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Belgreen. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BELGREEN HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- C J GROCERY (HESTERS BAIT SHOP)Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- NEWBERG TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- FULLER FARM 3CAFO · 1.0 mi
- CHAMPION RUSSELLVILLE DIST OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- FRANKLIN COUNTY LANDFILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- FRANKLIN COUNTY - BRIDGE #2 COATING STRUCTURE 012104Brownfields · 2.2 mi
- Well (I-8)J. THORNE Franklin Cnty ALNitrate · 2.3 mi
- LANE FARMCAFO · 3.2 mi
- FRANKLIN COUNTY - BRIDGE #5 - COATING STRUCTURE 012904Brownfields · 3.5 mi
- BLANTON FARMSCAFO · 3.5 mi
- LOST CREEK BAIT SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Belgreen'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 Belgreen.
Total Sites
139
within ~10 miles of Belgreen
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Belgreen
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Belgreen
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Belgreen, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Belgreen — CAFO (17 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (11 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Belgreen
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 Belgreen
Everything above resolves to Belgreen as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 786 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 Belgreen Average
Belgreen Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Belgreen
- ●One soil character for all of Belgreen
- ●Frost dates read at Belgreen's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Belgreen's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Belgreen
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Belgreen, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Belgreen averages can't show:
We read public map data around Belgreen — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Belgreen average
How we know this about Belgreen
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 Belgreen’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 Belgreen
When does frost risk typically end in Belgreen?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Belgreen typically lands around Mar 15, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Belgreen?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Belgreen typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 242 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Belgreen?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Belgreen sees about 242 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Oct 29, about 207 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Belgreen?
The federal record around Belgreen is a meaningful one — 139 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (84), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Belgreen?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Belgreen's scale — its 7b band and its 242-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Belgreen'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 Belgreen’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Belgreen's own scale — its own ~242-day season between 28°F freezes, the 786 acres it covers and 139 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Belgreen's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Belgreen's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 15 and Nov 12 and the ~242-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 139 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Belgreen, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Belgreen's boundary and the 786 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~242-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Belgreen's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Belgreen's 786 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Franklin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Franklin 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 Franklin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Belgreen's 786 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Belgreen you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 786 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 Belgreen-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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