Hiseville, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Hiseville, 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 Hiseville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hiseville — the short answer
Hiseville, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 467 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 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 467 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 Hiseville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hiseville's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hiseville
Each reading below is measured for Hiseville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHiseville runs about 221 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
MeasuredHiseville 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 Hiseville is in
Hiseville sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hiseville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Barren County.
What Grows in Hiseville
Every plant below cleared Hiseville's own zone 7a and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hiseville?
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 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 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Hiseville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Hiseville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 71 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hiseville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hiseville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- D & L MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Hiseville Parts LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- W C Froggett PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- Hiseville Elementary SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- I16D0009Nitrate · 2300 ft
- Convenient Food Mart 222Underground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- John H Smith & Earl Jolly EstateUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- Freddie C PolsonUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- Griders GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- Ronnie Jeffries SunocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- Bristle Co StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- Gilbert GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hiseville'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 Hiseville.
Total Sites
260
within ~10 miles of Hiseville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hiseville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hiseville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hiseville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Hiseville — Underground Storage Tanks (213 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (18 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.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Hiseville
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 Hiseville
Everything above resolves to Hiseville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 467 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 Hiseville Average
Hiseville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Hiseville
- ●One soil character for all of Hiseville
- ●Frost dates read at Hiseville's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hiseville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hiseville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hiseville, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hiseville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hiseville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hiseville average
How we know this about Hiseville
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 Hiseville’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 Hiseville
When does frost risk typically end in Hiseville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hiseville 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 Hiseville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hiseville typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hiseville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hiseville sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 23, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hiseville?
The federal record around Hiseville is a meaningful one — 260 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (213), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Hiseville?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hiseville's scale — its 7a band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hiseville'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 Hiseville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hiseville's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 467 acres it covers and 260 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hiseville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hiseville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 6 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 260 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hiseville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hiseville's boundary and the 467 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hiseville's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Hiseville 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 Hiseville's 467 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Barren County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Barren 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 Barren County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hiseville's 467 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hiseville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 467 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Hiseville-wide figureread your own land →