Bogart, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Bogart, 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 Bogart lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bogart — the short answer
Bogart, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 260 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 11
- Oconee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- Oconee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~260
- Oconee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Oconee County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Bogart's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bogart's 260-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bogart
Each reading below is measured for Bogart itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBogart runs about 260 days between hard freezes (read from Oconee County, the closest normal to Bogart) — 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
MeasuredBogart 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 Bogart is in
Bogart sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bogart's own centroid rather than borrowed from Oconee County.
What Grows in Bogart
Every plant below cleared Bogart's own zone 8b and its 260-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bogart?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Bogart
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bogart. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CITY OF BOGARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- RON YOUNGUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- BENSONS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- BOGART PANTRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- UNITED PARCEL SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ROADWAY EXPRESS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- CATERPILLAR INCBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- CATERPILLAR INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.0 mi
- FORMERLY DANIELS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- BOTTLING GROUP LLC DBA THE PEPSI BOTTLING GROUP ATHENSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- TRICO II SE PETROLEUM CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- GOLDEN PANTRY #12Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bogart'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 Bogart.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bogart
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bogart
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bogart, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Bogart — Underground Storage Tanks (377 sites) and PFAS (4 sites). 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.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Bogart
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 Bogart average
Your land is one point inside Bogart
Everything above resolves to Bogart as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Oconee County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’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 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 Bogart Average
Bogart Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Bogart
- ●One soil character for all of Bogart
- ●Frost dates read at Bogart's scale: Mar 11 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bogart's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bogart
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bogart, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bogart averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bogart — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bogart average
How we know this about Bogart
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 Oconee 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 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 Bogart
When does frost risk typically end in Bogart?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bogart typically lands around Mar 11, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Bogart?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bogart typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 260 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bogart?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bogart sees about 260 frost-free days — roughly Mar 11 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 1 to Nov 12, about 225 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bogart?
The federal record around Bogart is a meaningful one — 482 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (377), 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 Bogart?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bogart's scale — its 8b band and its 260-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bogart'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 Bogart’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Bogart's own scale — the 1,571 acres it covers and 482 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bogart's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 482 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bogart, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bogart's boundary and the 1,571 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~260-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bogart's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Bogart has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Oconee County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bogart's 1,571 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Oconee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Oconee 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 Oconee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bogart's 1,571 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bogart you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,571 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 Bogart-wide figureread your own land →