Millerville, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Millerville, 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 Millerville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Millerville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
Millerville — the short answer
Millerville, Alabama: USDA zone 8a, about 249 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~249
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 Millerville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Millerville's 249-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Millerville
Each reading below is measured for Millerville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMillerville runs about 249 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
MeasuredMillerville 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 Millerville is in
Millerville sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Millerville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clay County.
What Grows in Millerville
Every plant below cleared Millerville's own zone 8a and its 249-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Millerville?
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 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Millerville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Millerville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- J E THOMASUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- Well O 4 331130085552001 Clay County AlNitrate · 750 ft
- MILLERVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- CLOSED BUSINESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- CLAY COUNTY COMMISSION SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- JACKSON GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Hatchet Creek Prospect MillervilleMining · 2200 ft
- MAPCO EXPRESS 5524Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Hatchet Creek Prospect - West MillervilleMining · 1.6 mi
- Alamag Copper Prospects No 1Mining · 1.8 mi
- Well N 3 331300085585801 Clay County AlNitrate · 3.8 mi
- CHANG XIONGCAFO · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Millerville'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 Millerville.
Total Sites
99
within ~10 miles of Millerville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Millerville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Millerville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Millerville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Millerville — CAFO (10 sites) and Mining (12 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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.
Check your specific parcel in Millerville
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 Millerville average
Your land is one point inside Millerville
Everything above resolves to Millerville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Millerville Average
Millerville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Millerville
- ●One soil character for all of Millerville
- ●Frost dates read at Millerville's scale: Mar 13 to Nov 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Millerville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Millerville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Millerville, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Millerville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Millerville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Millerville average
How we know this about Millerville
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 Millerville’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 Millerville
When does frost risk typically end in Millerville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Millerville typically lands around Mar 13, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Millerville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Millerville typically arrives around Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 3, so the watching starts about Oct 18 — about 249 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Millerville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Millerville sees about 249 frost-free days — roughly Mar 13 through Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 3 to Nov 3, about 214 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Millerville?
The federal record around Millerville shows 99 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (53), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Millerville?
From about Oct 18 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Millerville's scale — its 8a band and its 249-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Millerville'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 Millerville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Millerville's own scale — its own ~249-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,287 acres it covers and 99 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Millerville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Millerville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 13 and Nov 17 and the ~249-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 99 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Millerville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Millerville's boundary and the 4,287 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~249-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Millerville's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Millerville's 4,287 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 Millerville's 4,287 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Millerville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,287 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 Millerville-wide figureread your own land →
More in Alabama
Growing region
Nearby growing guides