Broxton, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Broxton, 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 Broxton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Broxton — the short answer
Broxton, Georgia: USDA zone 9a, about 292 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 14
- Coffee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 3
- Coffee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~292
- Coffee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City 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 Coffee County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Broxton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Broxton's 292-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Broxton
Each reading below is measured for Broxton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBroxton runs about 292 days between hard freezes (read from Coffee County, the closest normal to Broxton) — 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
MeasuredBroxton sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Broxton is in
Broxton sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Broxton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Coffee County.
What Grows in Broxton
Every plant below cleared Broxton's own zone 9a and its 292-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Broxton?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Broxton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Broxton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ADENS MINIT MARKET #46Underground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- J W WOOTENUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- DAVIS & SONS CONSTRUCTION COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- BROXTON-MARY HAYES SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- PRIDGEN CORNER GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- MEE MEE & POP POP'S KWIK STOP INUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- ADENS MINIT MART #74Underground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- JOHNNYS SPORTS SHACKUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- AT&T PRIDGEN RADIO TOWERUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- WOOTEN SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- ADENS MINIT MART #86Underground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- 22M001Nitrate · 5.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Broxton'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 Broxton.
Total Sites
190
within ~10 miles of Broxton
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
17 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Broxton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Broxton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Broxton, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Broxton — Toxics Release Inventory (17 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (135 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Broxton
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 Broxton average
Your land is one point inside Broxton
Everything above resolves to Broxton as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Coffee 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 Broxton Average
Broxton Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Broxton
- ●One soil character for all of Broxton
- ●Frost dates read at Broxton's scale: Feb 14 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Broxton's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Broxton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Broxton, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Broxton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Broxton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Broxton average
How we know this about Broxton
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 Coffee 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 Broxton
When does frost risk typically end in Broxton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Broxton typically lands around Feb 14, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Broxton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Broxton typically arrives around Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 19, so the watching starts about Nov 3 — about 292 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Broxton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Broxton sees about 292 frost-free days — roughly Feb 14 through Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 7 to Nov 19, about 257 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Broxton?
The federal record around Broxton shows 190 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (135), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Broxton?
From about Nov 3 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Broxton's scale — its 9a band and its 292-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Broxton'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 Broxton’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Broxton's own scale — the 2,077 acres it covers and 190 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Broxton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 190 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Broxton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Broxton's boundary and the 2,077 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~292-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Broxton's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Broxton has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Coffee County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Broxton's 2,077 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Coffee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Coffee 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 Coffee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Broxton's 2,077 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Broxton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,077 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 Broxton-wide figureread your own land →
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