Newville, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Reliable performers under these conditions include artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Newville, 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 Newville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Newville — the short answer
Newville, Alabama: USDA zone 9a, about 289 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 15
- Henry County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 1
- Henry County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~289
- Henry County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Henry County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Newville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Newville's 289-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Newville
Each reading below is measured for Newville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsNewville runs about 289 days between hard freezes (read from Henry County, the closest normal to Newville) — 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
MeasuredNewville sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Newville is in
Newville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Newville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Henry County.
What Grows in Newville
Every plant below cleared Newville's own zone 9a and its 289-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Newville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Newville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Newville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Well U 3 Newville 3 312510085202001 AlNitrate · 200 ft
- NEWVILLE AREA VOCATIONAL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- NEWVILLE HARDWAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- NEWVILLE ZING SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- DOTHAN OIL MILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Well U 11 312534085203401 Henry County AlNitrate · 0.5 mi
- ADAMS FARMSCAFO · 1.2 mi
- RED STAR YEAST COMPANY, LLCToxics Release Inventory · 1.6 mi
- JO ANN'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- SHELLYS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- WIREGRASS RESEARCH & EXTENSION CENTERBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- AWA FABRICATING AND CONSTRUCTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Newville'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 Newville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Newville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Newville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Newville, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 39 sites within ~10 miles of Newville. 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.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Newville
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Newville
Everything above resolves to Newville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 3K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Henry 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 Newville Average
Newville Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Newville
- ●One soil character for all of Newville
- ●Frost dates read at Newville's scale: Feb 15 to Dec 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Newville's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Newville
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We read public map data around Newville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Newville average
How we know this about Newville
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 Henry 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 Newville
When does frost risk typically end in Newville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Newville typically lands around Feb 15, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Newville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Newville typically arrives around Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 17, so the watching starts about Nov 1 — about 289 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Newville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Newville sees about 289 frost-free days — roughly Feb 15 through Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 8 to Nov 17, about 254 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Newville?
The federal record around Newville is a meaningful one — 137 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (66), the nearest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 Newville?
From about Nov 1 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 Dec 1 (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 Dec 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Newville's scale — its 9a band and its 289-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Newville'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 Newville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Newville's own scale — the 2,572 acres it covers and 137 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Newville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 137 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Newville, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Newville's boundary and the 2,572 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~289-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Newville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Newville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Henry County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Newville's 2,572 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Henry County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Henry 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 Henry County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Newville's 2,572 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Newville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,572 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 Newville-wide figureread your own land →
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