Eagle Point, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Eagle Point, 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 Eagle Point lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Eagle Point — the short answer
Eagle Point, Alabama: USDA zone 8b, about 281 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 23
- Shelby County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 1
- Shelby County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~281
- Shelby County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Shelby County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Eagle Point's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eagle Point's 281-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eagle Point
Each reading below is measured for Eagle Point itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsEagle Point runs about 281 days between hard freezes (read from Shelby County, the closest normal to Eagle Point) — 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
MeasuredEagle Point 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 Eagle Point is in
Eagle Point sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eagle Point's own centroid rather than borrowed from Shelby County.
What Grows in Eagle Point
Every plant below cleared Eagle Point's own zone 8b and its 281-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eagle Point?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Eagle Point
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eagle Point. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GUARDIAN-IPCO INCToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKET #882Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- GREYSTONE CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- COWBOYS 280Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- EDWARDS CHEVROLET 280Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- WALGREENS #7791Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- BIG 10 TIRE STORES INC STORE #129Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- RIVER HILLS CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- GREYSTONE CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- GREYSTONE MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- EXPRESS OIL CHANGE & TIRE ENGINEERS-GREYSTONEBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- J L PERRIN GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eagle Point'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 Eagle Point.
Total Sites
716
within ~10 miles of Eagle Point
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eagle Point
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eagle Point
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Eagle Point
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 Eagle Point average
Your land is one point inside Eagle Point
Everything above resolves to Eagle Point as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Shelby 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 Eagle Point Average
Eagle Point Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Eagle Point
- ●One soil character for all of Eagle Point
- ●Frost dates read at Eagle Point's scale: Feb 23 to Dec 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eagle Point's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eagle Point
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eagle Point, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Eagle Point — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eagle Point average
How we know this about Eagle Point
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 Shelby 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 Eagle Point
When does frost risk typically end in Eagle Point?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eagle Point typically lands around Feb 23, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Eagle Point?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eagle Point typically arrives around Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 17, so the watching starts about Nov 1 — about 281 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eagle Point?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eagle Point sees about 281 frost-free days — roughly Feb 23 through Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 16 to Nov 17, about 246 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eagle Point?
The federal record around Eagle Point is a meaningful one — 716 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (408), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.6 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 Eagle Point?
From about Nov 1 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eagle Point's scale — its 8b band and its 281-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eagle Point'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 Eagle Point’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Eagle Point's own scale — the 1,414 acres it covers and 716 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eagle Point's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 716 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eagle Point, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eagle Point's boundary and the 1,414 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~281-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Eagle Point's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Eagle Point has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Shelby County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eagle Point's 1,414 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Shelby County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Shelby 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 Shelby County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eagle Point's 1,414 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eagle Point you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,414 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.6 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 Eagle Point-wide figureread your own land →
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