Andersonville, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Andersonville, 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 Andersonville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Andersonville — the short answer
Andersonville, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 289 days between hard freezes, across 883 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 18
- Sumter County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 4
- Sumter County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~289
- Sumter County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 883 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Sumter County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Andersonville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Andersonville's 289-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Andersonville
Each reading below is measured for Andersonville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsAndersonville runs about 289 days between hard freezes (read from Sumter County, the closest normal to Andersonville) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAndersonville sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Andersonville is in
Andersonville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Andersonville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sumter County.
What Grows in Andersonville
Every plant below cleared Andersonville's own zone 8b and its 289-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Andersonville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Andersonville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Andersonville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MULLITE CO OF AMERICAUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- AT&T ANDERSONVILLE RADIO RELAY SUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- ANDERSONVILLE ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- US CERAMICS, LLC - ANDERSONVILLEToxics Release Inventory · 3.7 mi
- CHASE FARMS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- MACON STATE PRISONBrownfields · 5.9 mi
- GLOBAL CELLULOSE FIBERS - FLINT RIVER MILLToxics Release Inventory · 6.0 mi
- GLOBAL CELLULOSE FIBERS - FLINT RIVER MILLBrownfields · 6.0 mi
- ANDERSONVILLE NATIONAL HISTORICUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- C-E MINERALS-(MULCOA)Underground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- 12Q001Nitrate · 6.0 mi
- SOUTH GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGEBrownfields · 6.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Andersonville'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 Andersonville.
Total Sites
164
within ~10 miles of Andersonville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Andersonville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Andersonville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Andersonville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Andersonville — Toxics Release Inventory (14 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (106 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Andersonville
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 Andersonville
Everything above resolves to Andersonville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 883 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Sumter County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’s own centroid. 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 Andersonville Average
Andersonville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Andersonville
- ●One soil character for all of Andersonville
- ●Frost dates read at Andersonville's scale: Feb 18 to Dec 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Andersonville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Andersonville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Andersonville, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Andersonville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Andersonville average
How we know this about Andersonville
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 Sumter County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Andersonville
When does frost risk typically end in Andersonville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Andersonville typically lands around Feb 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 Mar 11.
When is the first frost in Andersonville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Andersonville typically arrives around Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 20, so the watching starts about Nov 4 — about 289 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Andersonville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Andersonville sees about 289 frost-free days — roughly Feb 18 through Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 11 to Nov 20, about 254 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Andersonville?
The federal record around Andersonville is a meaningful one — 164 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (106), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Andersonville?
From about Nov 4 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 Dec 4 (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 Dec 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Andersonville's scale — its 8b band and its 289-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Andersonville'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 Andersonville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Andersonville's own scale — the 883 acres it covers and 164 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Andersonville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 164 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Andersonville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Andersonville's boundary and the 883 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~289-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Andersonville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Andersonville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Sumter County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Andersonville's 883 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sumter County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sumter County
- The growing challenges every Georgia grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Georgia
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Sumter County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Andersonville's 883 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Andersonville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 883 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Andersonville-wide figureread your own land →
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