Auxier, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, 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 Auxier, 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 Auxier lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Auxier — the short answer
Auxier, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 595 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~222
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 595 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 Auxier's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Auxier's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Auxier
Each reading below is measured for Auxier itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAuxier runs about 222 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
MeasuredAuxier 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 Auxier is in
Auxier sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Auxier's own centroid rather than borrowed from Floyd County.
What Grows in Auxier
Every plant below cleared Auxier's own zone 7a and its 222-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Auxier?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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.
Documented around Auxier
Survey cells within 31 miles of Auxier checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 85 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Auxier
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Auxier. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Auxier-Railroad SidingUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Sheps Truck Stop ClosedUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Paintsville Prestonsburg Combs Field ArprtUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Highlands Regional Medical CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Hillbilly MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Auxier Gas & Go No 40Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Quick MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Floyd S Pike Electrical ContrUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Bizzark Inc Shop 1Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Davis ProduceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- AMERICAN STANDARD INC - PAINTSVILLE PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 2.0 mi
- Evans & Dixon IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Auxier'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 Auxier.
Total Sites
257
within ~10 miles of Auxier
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Auxier
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Auxier
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Auxier, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 226 sites within ~10 miles of Auxier. 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 Auxier
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 Auxier average
Your land is one point inside Auxier
Everything above resolves to Auxier as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 595 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 Auxier Average
Auxier Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Auxier
- ●One soil character for all of Auxier
- ●Frost dates read at Auxier's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Auxier's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Auxier
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Auxier, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Auxier averages can't show:
We read public map data around Auxier — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Auxier average
How we know this about Auxier
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 Auxier’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 Auxier
When does frost risk typically end in Auxier?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Auxier typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Auxier?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Auxier typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 222 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Auxier?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Auxier sees about 222 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 24, about 187 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Auxier?
The federal record around Auxier is a meaningful one — 257 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (226), 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 Auxier?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Auxier's scale — its 7a band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Auxier'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 Auxier’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Auxier's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 595 acres it covers and 257 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Auxier's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Auxier's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 7 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 257 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Auxier, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Auxier's boundary and the 595 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~222-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Auxier's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Auxier 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 Auxier's 595 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Floyd County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Floyd 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 Floyd County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Auxier's 595 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Auxier you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 595 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 Auxier-wide figureread your own land →
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