Double Springs, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Double 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 Double 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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Double Springs — the short answer
Double Springs, Alabama: USDA zone 7b, about 239 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 18
- 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
- ~239
- 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 7b is Double Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Double Springs's 239-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Double Springs
Each reading below is measured for Double Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDouble Springs runs about 239 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
MeasuredDouble Springs 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 Double Springs is in
Double Springs sits in the Southwestern Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Double Springs's own centroid rather than borrowed from Winston County.
What Grows in Double Springs
Every plant below cleared Double Springs's own zone 7b and its 239-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Double Springs?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 18 (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. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Double Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Double Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STOCKTON BAIT & FLOWERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- BANKHEAD RANGER FAIRVIEW WORK CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- WINSTON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- TOM FRAZIER 66Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- C L ROBINS LUMBER CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- WAYNES CUSTOM EXHAUSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- DOUBLE SPRINGS 66Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- MAIN STREET TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- DOUBLE SPRINGS MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- SOUTHERN HOMES IToxics Release Inventory · 1.5 mi
- L&R FISH AND BAIT (OVERTONS)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- AMERICAN FIBERGLASS PRODUCTS INCBrownfields · 1.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Double 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 Double Springs.
Total Sites
35
within ~10 miles of Double Springs
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Double Springs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Double Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Double Springs, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Double Springs — Toxics Release Inventory (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (25 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Double 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 Double Springs average
Your land is one point inside Double Springs
Everything above resolves to Double Springs 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 Double Springs Average
Double Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Double Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Double Springs
- ●Frost dates read at Double Springs's scale: Mar 18 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Double Springs's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Double Springs
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Double Springs, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Double Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Double Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Double Springs average
How we know this about Double 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 Double Springs’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 Double Springs
When does frost risk typically end in Double Springs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Double Springs typically lands around Mar 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Double Springs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Double Springs 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 239 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Double Springs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Double Springs sees about 239 frost-free days — roughly Mar 18 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 8 to Oct 29, about 204 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Double Springs?
The federal record around Double Springs is light — 35 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (25), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Double Springs?
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 Double Springs's scale — its 7b band and its 239-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Double 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 Double Springs’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Double Springs's own scale — its own ~239-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,276 acres it covers and 35 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Double Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Double Springs's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 18 and Nov 12 and the ~239-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 35 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Double Springs, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Double Springs's boundary and the 3,276 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~239-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Double Springs's own centroid, the Southwestern AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Double Springs's 3,276 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Winston County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Winston 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 Winston County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Double Springs's 3,276 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Double 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 3,276 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Double Springs-wide figureread your own land →
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