Eufaula, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Eufaula, 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 Eufaula lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Eufaula — the short answer
Eufaula, Alabama: USDA zone 8b, about 270 days between hard freezes, across 38K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 2
- Barbour County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 27
- Barbour County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~270
- Barbour County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 38K 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 Barbour County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Eufaula's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eufaula's 270-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eufaula
Each reading below is measured for Eufaula itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsEufaula runs about 270 days between hard freezes (read from Barbour County, the closest normal to Eufaula) — 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
MeasuredEufaula 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 Eufaula is in
Eufaula sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eufaula's own centroid rather than borrowed from Barbour County.
What Grows in Eufaula
Every plant below cleared Eufaula's own zone 8b and its 270-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eufaula?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Eufaula
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eufaula. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GALA GAS CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- STAR FOOD MART #3Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- CHEWALLA SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- CIRCLE K STORE #6755Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- US COAST GUARD AIDS TO NAVIGATION TEAMBrownfields · 2000 ft
- VILLAGE PEDDLER #2Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- KING POWER EQUIPMENTBrownfields · 2400 ft
- DRIFTWOOD GEN. STORE YOUNG'S BIG CATUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CHEWALLA CREEK MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MCKENZIE MARKETS NO. 9Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- MCKENZIE MARKETS #1Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- EUFAULA MAIN - 12720Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eufaula'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 Eufaula.
Total Sites
135
within ~10 miles of Eufaula
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
15 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eufaula
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eufaula
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eufaula, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 15 sites within ~10 miles of Eufaula. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Eufaula
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 Eufaula average
Your land is one point inside Eufaula
Everything above resolves to Eufaula as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 38K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Barbour 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 Eufaula Average
Eufaula Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Eufaula
- ●One soil character for all of Eufaula
- ●Frost dates read at Eufaula's scale: Mar 2 to Nov 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eufaula's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eufaula
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eufaula, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eufaula averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eufaula — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eufaula average
How we know this about Eufaula
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 Barbour 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 Eufaula
When does frost risk typically end in Eufaula?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eufaula typically lands around Mar 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Eufaula?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eufaula typically arrives around Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 13, so the watching starts about Oct 28 — about 270 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eufaula?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eufaula sees about 270 frost-free days — roughly Mar 2 through Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 23 to Nov 13, about 235 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eufaula?
The federal record around Eufaula shows 135 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (79), 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 Eufaula?
From about Oct 28 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eufaula's scale — its 8b band and its 270-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eufaula'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 Eufaula’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Eufaula's own scale — the 38,090 acres it covers and 135 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eufaula's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 135 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eufaula, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eufaula's boundary and the 38,090 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~270-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Eufaula's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Eufaula has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Barbour County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eufaula's 38,090 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Barbour County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Barbour 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 Barbour County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eufaula's 38,090 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eufaula you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 38,090 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 Eufaula-wide figureread your own land →