Woodville, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Woodville, 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 Woodville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Woodville — the short answer
Woodville, Alabama: USDA zone 8a, about 253 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- 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 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~253
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 Woodville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodville's 253-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodville
Each reading below is measured for Woodville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodville runs about 253 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
MeasuredWoodville 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 Woodville is in
Woodville sits in the Southwestern Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jackson County.
What Grows in Woodville
Every plant below cleared Woodville's own zone 8a and its 253-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodville?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. 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 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Woodville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VALLEY SIGNSBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- WOODVILLE HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- WOODVILLE CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- VULCAN NITA'S CAFE & MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- WELCO INC. DUMPSuperfund · 0.9 mi
- CHARLES BELL FARMCAFO · 1.1 mi
- PAINT ROCK GAS & OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- WWW RESTORATION, INC.Brownfields · 2.1 mi
- RAYS CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- LOG CABIN STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- CUMBERLAND MOUNTAIN WATERPFAS · 2.8 mi
- JACKSON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITYPFAS · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodville'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 Woodville.
Total Sites
89
within ~10 miles of Woodville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Woodville — PFAS (3 sites) and Superfund (4 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Woodville
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 Woodville
Everything above resolves to Woodville 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 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 Woodville Average
Woodville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Woodville
- ●One soil character for all of Woodville
- ●Frost dates read at Woodville's scale: Mar 12 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodville, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Woodville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodville average
How we know this about Woodville
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 Woodville’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 Woodville
When does frost risk typically end in Woodville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodville 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 Woodville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodville typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 253 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodville sees about 253 frost-free days — roughly Mar 12 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 2 to Nov 6, about 218 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodville?
The federal record around Woodville is a meaningful one — 89 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (58), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.6 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 Woodville?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodville's scale — its 8a band and its 253-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodville'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 Woodville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Woodville's own scale — its own ~253-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,238 acres it covers and 89 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 12 and Nov 20 and the ~253-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 89 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodville's boundary and the 4,238 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~253-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodville's own centroid, the Southwestern AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodville's 4,238 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jackson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jackson 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 Jackson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodville's 4,238 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,238 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.6 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 Woodville-wide figureread your own land →
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