Priceville, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Priceville, 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 Priceville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Priceville — the short answer
Priceville, Alabama: USDA zone 8a, about 251 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~251
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 Priceville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Priceville's 251-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Priceville
Each reading below is measured for Priceville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPriceville runs about 251 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
MeasuredPriceville 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 Priceville is in
Priceville sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Priceville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Morgan County.
What Grows in Priceville
Every plant below cleared Priceville's own zone 8a and its 251-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Priceville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Priceville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Priceville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SUMMERVILLE ENTERPRISESSuperfund · 0.7 mi
- WAVAHO PRICEVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- PRICEVILLE'S UTMOST LAUNDRYBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- EHR-SUS13Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- LIVINGSTON 76 SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- WESTERN EXPRESS INCBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- SWIFT (EAST WEST) TRANSPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- EAST UPPER RIVER ROAD HQFUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- PRICEVILLE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- I-65 MARATHON MINIT-MAN #58Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- RACEWAY #6710 PRICEVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- LANGS SPORTING GOODSBrownfields · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Priceville'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 Priceville.
Total Sites
513
within ~10 miles of Priceville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Priceville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Priceville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Priceville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 40 sites within ~10 miles of Priceville. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Priceville
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 Priceville
Everything above resolves to Priceville 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 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 Priceville Average
Priceville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Priceville
- ●One soil character for all of Priceville
- ●Frost dates read at Priceville's scale: Mar 12 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Priceville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Priceville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Priceville, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Priceville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Priceville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Priceville average
How we know this about Priceville
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 Priceville’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 Priceville
When does frost risk typically end in Priceville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Priceville typically lands around Mar 12, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Priceville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Priceville typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 251 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Priceville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Priceville sees about 251 frost-free days — roughly Mar 12 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 2 to Nov 4, about 216 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Priceville?
The federal record around Priceville is a meaningful one — 513 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (299), the nearest Superfund record about 0.7 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 Priceville?
From about Oct 19 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Priceville's scale — its 8a band and its 251-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Priceville'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 Priceville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Priceville's own scale — its own ~251-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,114 acres it covers and 513 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Priceville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Priceville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 12 and Nov 18 and the ~251-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 513 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Priceville, the closest Superfund record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Priceville's boundary and the 4,114 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~251-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Priceville's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Priceville's 4,114 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 Priceville's 4,114 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Priceville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,114 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund record about 0.7 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 Priceville-wide figureread your own land →
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