Falkville, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — 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 Falkville, 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 Falkville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Falkville — the short answer
Falkville, Alabama: USDA zone 8a, about 244 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~244
- 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 8a is Falkville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Falkville's 244-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Falkville
Each reading below is measured for Falkville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFalkville runs about 244 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
MeasuredFalkville sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Falkville is in
Falkville sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Falkville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Morgan County.
What Grows in Falkville
Every plant below cleared Falkville's own zone 8a and its 244-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Falkville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Falkville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Falkville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WALKER-WILLIAMS LUMBER CO INCToxics Release Inventory · 700 ft
- FALKVILLE WOOD TREATING INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 700 ft
- FALKVILLE WOOD TREATING INC.Brownfields · 700 ft
- PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORPORATIONToxics Release Inventory · 1800 ft
- MCCAIG TEXACO (PATS GEN STORE)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- VULCAN MR. QUICKUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- GTE CTE CENTRAL BUSINESS OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- WAVAHO CHARLIES (RAILROAD GAS)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CHARLIES FOOD MART GULF BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- K&K SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Well X-107 FALKVILLE ALABAMA Morgan Cnty ALNitrate · 0.7 mi
- FALKVILLE HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Falkville'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 Falkville.
Total Sites
211
within ~10 miles of Falkville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Falkville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Falkville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Falkville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Falkville — CAFO (22 sites) and Superfund (3 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
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Your land is one point inside Falkville
Everything above resolves to Falkville 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 Falkville Average
Falkville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Falkville
- ●One soil character for all of Falkville
- ●Frost dates read at Falkville's scale: Mar 14 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Falkville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Falkville
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Three things about your lot that Falkville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Falkville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Falkville
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 Falkville’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 Falkville
When does frost risk typically end in Falkville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Falkville typically lands around Mar 14, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Falkville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Falkville typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 244 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Falkville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Falkville sees about 244 frost-free days — roughly Mar 14 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 4 to Oct 30, about 209 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Falkville?
The federal record around Falkville is a meaningful one — 211 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (126), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.1 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 Falkville?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Falkville's scale — its 8a band and its 244-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Falkville'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 Falkville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Falkville's own scale — its own ~244-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,728 acres it covers and 211 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Falkville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Falkville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 14 and Nov 13 and the ~244-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 211 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Falkville, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Falkville's boundary and the 2,728 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~244-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Falkville's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Falkville's 2,728 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Morgan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Morgan 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 Morgan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Falkville's 2,728 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Falkville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,728 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.1 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 Falkville-wide figureread your own land →
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