Eddyville, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Eddyville, 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 Eddyville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Eddyville — the short answer
Eddyville, Kentucky: USDA zone 7b, about 240 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~240
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 7b is Eddyville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eddyville's 240-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eddyville
Each reading below is measured for Eddyville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEddyville runs about 240 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
MeasuredEddyville sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Eddyville is in
Eddyville sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eddyville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lyon County.
What Grows in Eddyville
Every plant below cleared Eddyville's own zone 7b and its 240-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eddyville?
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 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Eddyville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eddyville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Five Star #3300Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Bluegrass Oil Co - Eddyville GulfUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Pore Ole Freddies-EddyvilleUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Eddyville CitgoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Former Eddyville Fivestar No 3300Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Nu-KroUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Lyon Co Board of Education Bus GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Clyde S Tiller PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Eddyville TireUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Fredonia Bulk Plant 251Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Lyon Co Ambulance ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Lyon Co State Maintenance Storage FacilityUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eddyville'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 Eddyville.
Total Sites
126
within ~10 miles of Eddyville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eddyville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eddyville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eddyville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Eddyville — Underground Storage Tanks (82 sites) and Mining (7 sites). 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.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Eddyville
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 Eddyville
Everything above resolves to Eddyville 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 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 Eddyville Average
Eddyville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Eddyville
- ●One soil character for all of Eddyville
- ●Frost dates read at Eddyville's scale: Mar 18 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eddyville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eddyville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eddyville, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eddyville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eddyville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eddyville average
How we know this about Eddyville
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 Eddyville’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 Eddyville
When does frost risk typically end in Eddyville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eddyville typically lands around Mar 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Eddyville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eddyville typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 240 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eddyville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eddyville sees about 240 frost-free days — roughly Mar 18 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 8 to Oct 30, about 205 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eddyville?
The federal record around Eddyville is a meaningful one — 126 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (82), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Eddyville?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eddyville's scale — its 7b band and its 240-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eddyville'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 Eddyville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Eddyville's own scale — its own ~240-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,433 acres it covers and 126 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eddyville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Eddyville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 18 and Nov 13 and the ~240-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 126 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eddyville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eddyville's boundary and the 4,433 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~240-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Eddyville's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eddyville's 4,433 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lyon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lyon 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 Lyon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eddyville's 4,433 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eddyville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,433 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Eddyville-wide figureread your own land →
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