Lineville, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lineville, 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 Lineville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lineville — the short answer
Lineville, Alabama: USDA zone 8a, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 6K 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 Lineville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lineville's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lineville
Each reading below is measured for Lineville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLineville runs about 243 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
MeasuredLineville 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 Lineville is in
Lineville sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lineville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clay County.
What Grows in Lineville
Every plant below cleared Lineville's own zone 8a and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lineville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Lineville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lineville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LINEVILLE UNION 76Underground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- CITY OF LINEVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- CHIEF'S PIT STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- DISCOUNT FOOD MART #181 SHELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- CITY OF LINEVILLE TANKS REMOVEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CROWN STATIONS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- CHARLOTTE BRIMERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- COUNTRY CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- 1208TH QM COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- A A BURDETTEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- HIGHLAND GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- WEST END AMOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lineville'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 Lineville.
Total Sites
217
within ~10 miles of Lineville
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lineville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lineville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lineville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lineville — CAFO (42 sites) and Mining (65 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
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Your land is one point inside Lineville
Everything above resolves to Lineville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K 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 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 Lineville Average
Lineville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Lineville
- ●One soil character for all of Lineville
- ●Frost dates read at Lineville's scale: Mar 17 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lineville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Lineville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Lineville
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 Lineville’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 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 Lineville
When does frost risk typically end in Lineville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lineville typically lands around Mar 17, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Lineville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lineville typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lineville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lineville sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 17 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 7 to Nov 1, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lineville?
The federal record around Lineville runs heavier than most — 217 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (79), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lineville?
From about Oct 16 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lineville's scale — its 8a band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lineville'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 Lineville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lineville's own scale — its own ~243-day season between 28°F freezes, the 6,188 acres it covers and 217 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lineville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lineville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 17 and Nov 15 and the ~243-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 217 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lineville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lineville's boundary and the 6,188 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lineville's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lineville's 6,188 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clay County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clay 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 Clay County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lineville's 6,188 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lineville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,188 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Lineville-wide figureread your own land →
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