Coffee Springs, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Coffee Springs, 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 Coffee Springs lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Coffee Springs — the short answer
Coffee Springs, Alabama: USDA zone 8b, about 274 days between hard freezes, across 502 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 25
- Geneva County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- Geneva County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~274
- Geneva County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 502 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 Geneva County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Coffee Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Coffee Springs's 274-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Coffee Springs
Each reading below is measured for Coffee Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsCoffee Springs runs about 274 days between hard freezes (read from Geneva County, the closest normal to Coffee Springs) — 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
MeasuredCoffee Springs 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 Coffee Springs is in
Coffee Springs sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Coffee Springs's own centroid rather than borrowed from Geneva County.
What Grows in Coffee Springs
Every plant below cleared Coffee Springs's own zone 8b and its 274-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Coffee Springs?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — 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 Coffee Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Coffee Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AUDIE ANDERSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- COFFEE SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- HILL TOP GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- M & G POULTRYCAFO · 1.9 mi
- TLC FARMCAFO · 2.1 mi
- MERCER LIVESTOCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- DOVE SPRINGS FARMCAFO · 2.9 mi
- B&B BROILERSCAFO · 3.9 mi
- REGGIE BRITTCAFO · 4.0 mi
- SOUTHERN W FARMS- NEWCAFO · 4.2 mi
- SOUTHERN W FARMCAFO · 4.2 mi
- F & S FARMSCAFO · 4.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Coffee Springs'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 Coffee Springs.
Total Sites
111
within ~10 miles of Coffee Springs
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Coffee Springs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Coffee Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Coffee Springs, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 31 sites within ~10 miles of Coffee Springs. 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 Coffee Springs
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 Coffee Springs average
Your land is one point inside Coffee Springs
Everything above resolves to Coffee Springs as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 502 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Geneva County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’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 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 Coffee Springs Average
Coffee Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Coffee Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Coffee Springs
- ●Frost dates read at Coffee Springs's scale: Feb 25 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Coffee Springs's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Three things about your lot that Coffee Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Coffee Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Coffee Springs average
How we know this about Coffee Springs
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 Geneva 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 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 Coffee Springs
When does frost risk typically end in Coffee Springs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Coffee Springs typically lands around Feb 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 Mar 18.
When is the first frost in Coffee Springs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Coffee Springs typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 274 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Coffee Springs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Coffee Springs sees about 274 frost-free days — roughly Feb 25 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 18 to Nov 12, about 239 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Coffee Springs?
The federal record around Coffee Springs shows 111 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (63), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Coffee Springs?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Coffee Springs's scale — its 8b band and its 274-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Coffee Springs'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 Coffee Springs’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Coffee Springs's own scale — the 502 acres it covers and 111 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Coffee Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 111 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Coffee Springs, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Coffee Springs's boundary and the 502 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~274-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Coffee Springs's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Coffee Springs has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Geneva County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Coffee Springs's 502 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Geneva County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Geneva 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 Geneva County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Coffee Springs's 502 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Coffee Springs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 502 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 Coffee Springs-wide figureread your own land →
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