Uniontown, 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.
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 Uniontown, 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 Uniontown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Uniontown — the short answer
Uniontown, Alabama: USDA zone 8b, about 272 days between hard freezes, across 10K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 27
- Perry County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- Perry County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~272
- Perry County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 10K 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 Perry County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Uniontown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Uniontown's 272-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Uniontown
Each reading below is measured for Uniontown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsUniontown runs about 272 days between hard freezes (read from Perry County, the closest normal to Uniontown) — 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
MeasuredUniontown 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 Uniontown is in
Uniontown sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Uniontown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Perry County.
What Grows in Uniontown
Every plant below cleared Uniontown's own zone 8b and its 272-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Uniontown?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 30; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 27 (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. 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 Uniontown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Uniontown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TATE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ARLEY WARREN GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- TUBBS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WILLIE BANKS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- PRUETT OIL CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- UNIONTOWN UTILITIES BOARDPFAS · 1.1 mi
- BEST MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- UNIONTOWN ELEMENTARYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- CHEVRON USA INC-0041205Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- ALABAMA CATFISH FEEDMILL LLCBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- QRN RCAGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- KEYLAESE FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Uniontown'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 Uniontown.
Total Sites
37
within ~10 miles of Uniontown
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Uniontown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Uniontown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Uniontown, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 26 sites within ~10 miles of Uniontown. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Uniontown
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 Uniontown average
Your land is one point inside Uniontown
Everything above resolves to Uniontown as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 10K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Perry County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’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 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 Uniontown Average
Uniontown Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Uniontown
- ●One soil character for all of Uniontown
- ●Frost dates read at Uniontown's scale: Feb 27 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Uniontown's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Uniontown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Uniontown, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Uniontown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Uniontown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Uniontown average
How we know this about Uniontown
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 Perry 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 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 Uniontown
When does frost risk typically end in Uniontown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Uniontown typically lands around Feb 27, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Uniontown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Uniontown 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 272 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Uniontown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Uniontown sees about 272 frost-free days — roughly Feb 27 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 20 to Nov 12, about 237 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Uniontown?
The federal record around Uniontown is light — 37 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (26), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Uniontown?
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 Uniontown's scale — its 8b band and its 272-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Uniontown'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 Uniontown’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Uniontown's own scale — the 9,713 acres it covers and 37 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Uniontown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 37 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Uniontown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Uniontown's boundary and the 9,713 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~272-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Uniontown's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Uniontown has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Perry County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Uniontown's 9,713 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Perry County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Perry 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 Perry County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Uniontown's 9,713 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Uniontown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 9,713 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Uniontown-wide figureread your own land →
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