Maplesville, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Maplesville, 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 Maplesville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Maplesville — the short answer
Maplesville, Alabama: USDA zone 8b, about 264 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 6
- Chilton County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- Chilton County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~264
- Chilton County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Chilton County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Maplesville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Maplesville's 264-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Maplesville
Each reading below is measured for Maplesville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsMaplesville runs about 264 days between hard freezes (read from Chilton County, the closest normal to Maplesville) — 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
MeasuredMaplesville 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 Maplesville is in
Maplesville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Maplesville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Chilton County.
What Grows in Maplesville
Every plant below cleared Maplesville's own zone 8b and its 264-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Maplesville?
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 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 25 — 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 Maplesville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Maplesville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SEALES GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- MAPLESVILLE MAIN - 12738Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- MAPLESVILLE SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- MAPLESVILLE TD-2Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ALDOT DIVISION #5 DISTRICT #4Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- B & R SHORT STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SHOP N FILL #20 (CHEVRON FOOD MART)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- MAPLESVILLE HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- WEST FRASER MILLSToxics Release Inventory · 1.5 mi
- WEST FRASER MAPLESVILLE LUMBER MILLToxics Release Inventory · 1.5 mi
- REYNOLDS TRUCKING COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- HICKS PROPERTIES LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Maplesville'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 Maplesville.
Total Sites
55
within ~10 miles of Maplesville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Maplesville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Maplesville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Maplesville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Maplesville — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (37 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Maplesville
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 Maplesville average
Your land is one point inside Maplesville
Everything above resolves to Maplesville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Chilton 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 Maplesville Average
Maplesville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Maplesville
- ●One soil character for all of Maplesville
- ●Frost dates read at Maplesville's scale: Mar 6 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Maplesville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Maplesville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Maplesville, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Maplesville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Maplesville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Maplesville average
How we know this about Maplesville
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 Chilton 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 Maplesville
When does frost risk typically end in Maplesville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Maplesville typically lands around Mar 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Maplesville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Maplesville typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 264 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Maplesville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Maplesville sees about 264 frost-free days — roughly Mar 6 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 27 to Nov 11, about 229 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Maplesville?
The federal record around Maplesville shows 55 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (37), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Maplesville?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Maplesville's scale — its 8b band and its 264-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Maplesville'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 Maplesville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Maplesville's own scale — the 2,198 acres it covers and 55 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Maplesville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 55 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Maplesville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Maplesville's boundary and the 2,198 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~264-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Maplesville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Maplesville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Chilton County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Maplesville's 2,198 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Chilton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Chilton 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 Chilton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Maplesville's 2,198 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Maplesville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,198 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Maplesville-wide figureread your own land →
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