Brundidge, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Brundidge, 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 Brundidge 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 Brundidge — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Brundidge — the short answer
Brundidge, Alabama: USDA zone 8b, about 283 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 22
- Pike County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 2
- Pike County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~283
- Pike County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 6K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Pike County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Brundidge's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Brundidge's 283-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Brundidge
Each reading below is measured for Brundidge itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBrundidge runs about 283 days between hard freezes (read from Pike County, the closest normal to Brundidge) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBrundidge sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Brundidge is in
Brundidge sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Brundidge's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pike County.
What Grows in Brundidge
Every plant below cleared Brundidge's own zone 8b and its 283-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Brundidge?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Brundidge
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Brundidge. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ANDERSON'S PEANUTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- BARR GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- PINE TREE COUNTRY CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- J&S BUYRITEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- SANDERS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- BRYANT'S WELDING SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- DOXSEE FOOD CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- O K CORRALUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- BRUNDIDGE SHIRT CORPORATIONBrownfields · 2300 ft
- BRUNDIDGE ELECTRONICS CORPToxics Release Inventory · 2300 ft
- MOULTRY EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- JR'S EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Brundidge'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 Brundidge.
Total Sites
164
within ~10 miles of Brundidge
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Brundidge
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Brundidge
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Brundidge, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 45 sites within ~10 miles of Brundidge. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Brundidge
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 Brundidge average
Your land is one point inside Brundidge
Everything above resolves to Brundidge as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 6K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Pike County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’s own centroid. 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 city 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 Brundidge Average
Brundidge Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Brundidge
- ●One soil character for all of Brundidge
- ●Frost dates read at Brundidge's scale: Feb 22 to Dec 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Brundidge's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Brundidge
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Brundidge, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Brundidge averages can't show:
We read public map data around Brundidge — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Brundidge average
How we know this about Brundidge
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Pike County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Brundidge
When does frost risk typically end in Brundidge?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Brundidge typically lands around Feb 22, 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 Mar 15.
When is the first frost in Brundidge?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Brundidge typically arrives around Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 18, so the watching starts about Nov 2 — about 283 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Brundidge?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Brundidge sees about 283 frost-free days — roughly Feb 22 through Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 15 to Nov 18, about 248 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Brundidge?
The federal record around Brundidge shows 164 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (85), 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 Brundidge?
From about Nov 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 Dec 2 (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 Dec 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Brundidge's scale — its 8b band and its 283-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Brundidge'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 Brundidge’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Brundidge's own scale — the 6,237 acres it covers and 164 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Brundidge's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 164 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Brundidge, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Brundidge's boundary and the 6,237 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~283-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Brundidge's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Brundidge has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Pike County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Brundidge's 6,237 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pike County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pike 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 Pike County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Brundidge's 6,237 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Brundidge you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,237 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 Brundidge-wide figureread your own land →