Rehobeth, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Rehobeth, 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 Rehobeth lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Rehobeth — the short answer
Rehobeth, Alabama: USDA zone 9a, about 296 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 10
- Houston County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 3
- Houston County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~296
- Houston County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Houston County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Rehobeth's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rehobeth's 296-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rehobeth
Each reading below is measured for Rehobeth itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsRehobeth runs about 296 days between hard freezes (read from Houston County, the closest normal to Rehobeth) — 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
MeasuredRehobeth 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 Rehobeth is in
Rehobeth sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Rehobeth's own centroid rather than borrowed from Houston County.
What Grows in Rehobeth
Every plant below cleared Rehobeth's own zone 9a and its 296-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rehobeth?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Rehobeth
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rehobeth. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- REHOBETH HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- T&T GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MIKES GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Well Q 12 310752085271301 Houston Cnty ALNitrate · 1.0 mi
- AMANDA'S PIT STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- WILLIAMS BOAT COUNTRY SUITE 1Brownfields · 1.8 mi
- BRANTON RD MERCURY SPILLSuperfund · 1.8 mi
- KELLEYS SUPERETTEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- KELLYS SUPERETTEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- BREEZE IN MART #3Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- Well R 8 310549085264501 Houston County AlNitrate · 1.9 mi
- Well Q 7 310713085242301 Houston County AlNitrate · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Rehobeth'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 Rehobeth.
Total Sites
478
within ~10 miles of Rehobeth
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Rehobeth
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rehobeth
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Rehobeth, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 316 sites within ~10 miles of Rehobeth. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Rehobeth
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 Rehobeth average
Your land is one point inside Rehobeth
Everything above resolves to Rehobeth as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 5K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Houston 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 Rehobeth Average
Rehobeth Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Rehobeth
- ●One soil character for all of Rehobeth
- ●Frost dates read at Rehobeth's scale: Feb 10 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rehobeth's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Rehobeth
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Rehobeth, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Rehobeth averages can't show:
We read public map data around Rehobeth — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rehobeth average
How we know this about Rehobeth
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 Houston 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 Rehobeth
When does frost risk typically end in Rehobeth?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rehobeth typically lands around Feb 10, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Rehobeth?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rehobeth typically arrives around Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 19, so the watching starts about Nov 3 — about 296 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rehobeth?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rehobeth sees about 296 frost-free days — roughly Feb 10 through Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 3 to Nov 19, about 261 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rehobeth?
The federal record around Rehobeth is a meaningful one — 478 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (316), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Rehobeth?
From about Nov 3 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Rehobeth's scale — its 9a band and its 296-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rehobeth'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 Rehobeth’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Rehobeth's own scale — the 4,926 acres it covers and 478 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rehobeth's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 478 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rehobeth, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rehobeth's boundary and the 4,926 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~296-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Rehobeth's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Rehobeth has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Houston County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Rehobeth's 4,926 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Houston County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Houston 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 Houston County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rehobeth's 4,926 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rehobeth you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,926 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 Rehobeth-wide figureread your own land →
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