Redland, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Redland, 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 Redland lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Redland — the short answer
Redland, Alabama: USDA zone 8b, about 271 days between hard freezes, across 15K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 28
- Elmore County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- Elmore County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~271
- Elmore County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 15K 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 Elmore County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Redland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Redland's 271-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Redland
Each reading below is measured for Redland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsRedland runs about 271 days between hard freezes (read from Elmore County, the closest normal to Redland) — 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
MeasuredRedland 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 Redland is in
Redland sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Redland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Elmore County.
What Grows in Redland
Every plant below cleared Redland's own zone 8b and its 271-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Redland?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — 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 Redland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Redland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CENTRAL ELMORE WATER AUTHORITYPFAS · 1.1 mi
- WOODARD & SONS GROUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- Well NAWQA LUSCR1-13 Elmore Cnty ALNitrate · 2.5 mi
- AL HOLMES TAXIDERMY STUDIO AND WILDLIFE MUSEUMBrownfields · 2.5 mi
- WILLOW SPRINGS MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- Well U 17 322510086080401 Elmore County AlNitrate · 3.0 mi
- FT BODDIE CANTEEN 1206 QM DETUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- RACEWAY #6714Underground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- KWIK SHOP #122 (PETRO PLUS)Underground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- MANESS GULF SER STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- EMERALD MOUNTAIN MARKET (MARATHON)Underground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- MITCHELL CREEK GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Redland'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 Redland.
Total Sites
533
within ~10 miles of Redland
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Redland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Redland
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Redland
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 Redland
Everything above resolves to Redland as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 15K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Elmore 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 Redland Average
Redland Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Redland
- ●One soil character for all of Redland
- ●Frost dates read at Redland's scale: Feb 28 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Redland's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Redland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Redland, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Redland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Redland average
How we know this about Redland
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 Elmore 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 Redland
When does frost risk typically end in Redland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Redland typically lands around Feb 28, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Redland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Redland typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 271 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Redland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Redland sees about 271 frost-free days — roughly Feb 28 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 21 to Nov 12, about 236 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Redland?
The federal record around Redland is a meaningful one — 533 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (264), the nearest PFAS record about 1.1 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 Redland?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Redland's scale — its 8b band and its 271-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Redland'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 Redland’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Redland's own scale — the 15,442 acres it covers and 533 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Redland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 533 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Redland, the closest PFAS record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Redland's boundary and the 15,442 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~271-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Redland's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Redland has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Elmore County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Redland's 15,442 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Elmore County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Elmore 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 Elmore County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Redland's 15,442 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Redland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 15,442 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS record about 1.1 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 Redland-wide figureread your own land →
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