Rogersville, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Rogersville, 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 Rogersville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Rogersville — the short answer
Rogersville, Alabama: USDA zone 8a, about 246 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~246
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Rogersville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rogersville's 246-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rogersville
Each reading below is measured for Rogersville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRogersville runs about 246 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
MeasuredRogersville 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 Rogersville is in
Rogersville sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Rogersville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lauderdale County.
What Grows in Rogersville
Every plant below cleared Rogersville's own zone 8a and its 246-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rogersville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Rogersville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rogersville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OLIVER CAR CAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- ROGERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Well S-81 CITY OF RODGERSVILLE AlNitrate · 0.5 mi
- WARRENS MARKET MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ALA GAS EAST LAUDERDALE OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ROGERSVILLE SERVICE CENTER EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ROGERSVILLE MAIN - 11155Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- H&S FUEL CITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- QUIK MART #24 SHELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- O'REILLY AUTO PARTSBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- NORTH ALABAMA COMPOSITES CO INCBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- PAUL JOHNSON PROPERTYBrownfields · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Rogersville'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 Rogersville.
Total Sites
122
within ~10 miles of Rogersville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Rogersville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rogersville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Rogersville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 83 sites within ~10 miles of Rogersville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Rogersville
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 Rogersville average
Your land is one point inside Rogersville
Everything above resolves to Rogersville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Rogersville Average
Rogersville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Rogersville
- ●One soil character for all of Rogersville
- ●Frost dates read at Rogersville's scale: Mar 14 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rogersville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Rogersville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Rogersville, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Rogersville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Rogersville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rogersville average
How we know this about Rogersville
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 Rogersville’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 Rogersville
When does frost risk typically end in Rogersville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rogersville typically lands around Mar 14, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Rogersville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rogersville typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 246 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rogersville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rogersville sees about 246 frost-free days — roughly Mar 14 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 4 to Nov 1, about 211 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rogersville?
The federal record around Rogersville is a meaningful one — 122 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (83), 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 Rogersville?
From about Oct 16 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Rogersville's scale — its 8a band and its 246-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rogersville'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 Rogersville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Rogersville's own scale — its own ~246-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,941 acres it covers and 122 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rogersville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Rogersville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 14 and Nov 15 and the ~246-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 122 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rogersville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rogersville's boundary and the 1,941 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~246-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Rogersville's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Rogersville's 1,941 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lauderdale County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rogersville's 1,941 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rogersville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,941 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 Rogersville-wide figureread your own land →