Adairville, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Adairville, 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 Adairville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Adairville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Adairville — the short answer
Adairville, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 228 days between hard freezes, across 752 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~228
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 752 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 7a is Adairville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Adairville's 228-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Adairville
Each reading below is measured for Adairville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAdairville runs about 228 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
MeasuredAdairville sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Adairville is in
Adairville sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Adairville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Logan County.
What Grows in Adairville
Every plant below cleared Adairville's own zone 7a and its 228-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Adairville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — 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.
Documented around Adairville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Adairville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 35 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Adairville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Adairville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Adairville Auto RepairUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- D L Robey Farms Partnership LTDUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Adairville BP MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Trimbles Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Adairville L331330Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- ADAIRVILLE WATER WORKSPFAS · 0.9 mi
- Adairville Truck StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- K12B0009Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- Daniel T Draper PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- Oakville StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Morgans GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- Dot StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Adairville'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 Adairville.
Total Sites
51
within ~10 miles of Adairville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Adairville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Adairville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Adairville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of Adairville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Adairville
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 Adairville average
Your land is one point inside Adairville
Everything above resolves to Adairville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 752 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 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 Adairville Average
Adairville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Adairville
- ●One soil character for all of Adairville
- ●Frost dates read at Adairville's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Adairville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Adairville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Adairville, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Adairville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Adairville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Adairville average
How we know this about Adairville
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 Adairville’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 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 Adairville
When does frost risk typically end in Adairville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Adairville typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Adairville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Adairville typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 228 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Adairville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Adairville sees about 228 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 26, about 193 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Adairville?
The federal record around Adairville is a meaningful one — 51 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (28), 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 Adairville?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Adairville's scale — its 7a band and its 228-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Adairville'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 Adairville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Adairville's own scale — its own ~228-day season between 28°F freezes, the 752 acres it covers and 51 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Adairville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Adairville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 9 and the ~228-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 51 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Adairville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Adairville's boundary and the 752 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~228-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Adairville's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Adairville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Adairville's 752 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Logan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Logan County
- The growing challenges every Kentucky grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kentucky
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Logan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Adairville's 752 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Adairville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 752 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 Adairville-wide figureread your own land →