Blairsville, Georgia, 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, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Blairsville, 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 Blairsville 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 Blairsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Blairsville — the short answer
Blairsville, Georgia: USDA zone 7a, about 204 days between hard freezes, across 771 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~204
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 771 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 Blairsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Blairsville's 204-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Blairsville
Each reading below is measured for Blairsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBlairsville runs about 204 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
MeasuredBlairsville 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 Blairsville is in
Blairsville sits in the Blue Ridge — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Blairsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Union County.
What Grows in Blairsville
Every plant below cleared Blairsville's own zone 7a and its 204-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Blairsville?
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 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — 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 Blairsville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Blairsville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 62 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Blairsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Blairsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- UNION COUNTY SCHOOL BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- GOLD KISTUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- CHEVRON FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- GOOCH TRUCKING CO INCBrownfields · 1600 ft
- 14PP06Nitrate · 1600 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #7265Brownfields · 1700 ft
- UNION COUNTY ROAD DEPARTMENT MAIUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- STANDARD TELEPHONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- SAKAI AMERICA MANUFACTURING INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- WAYNE E COLWELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- CCTD PARTNERSHIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- UNDER PARKING LOT OF HILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Blairsville'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 Blairsville.
Total Sites
110
within ~10 miles of Blairsville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Blairsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Blairsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Blairsville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Blairsville — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (82 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Blairsville
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 Blairsville average
Your land is one point inside Blairsville
Everything above resolves to Blairsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 771 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 Blairsville Average
Blairsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Blairsville
- ●One soil character for all of Blairsville
- ●Frost dates read at Blairsville's scale: Apr 9 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Blairsville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Blairsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Blairsville, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Blairsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Blairsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Blairsville average
How we know this about Blairsville
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 Blairsville’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 Blairsville
When does frost risk typically end in Blairsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Blairsville typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Blairsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Blairsville typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 204 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Blairsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Blairsville sees about 204 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 16, about 169 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Blairsville?
The federal record around Blairsville is a meaningful one — 110 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (82), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Blairsville?
From about Sep 30 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 Oct 30 (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 Oct 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Blairsville's scale — its 7a band and its 204-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Blairsville'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 Blairsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Blairsville's own scale — its own ~204-day season between 28°F freezes, the 771 acres it covers and 110 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Blairsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Blairsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Oct 30 and the ~204-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 110 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Blairsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Blairsville's boundary and the 771 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~204-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Blairsville's own centroid, the Blue RidgeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Blairsville 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 Blairsville's 771 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Union County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Union 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 Union County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Blairsville's 771 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Blairsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 771 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Blairsville-wide figureread your own land →
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