Byromville, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — 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, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Byromville, 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 Byromville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Byromville — the short answer
Byromville, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 283 days between hard freezes, across 232 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 21
- Dooly County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 1
- Dooly County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~283
- Dooly County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 232 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 Dooly County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Byromville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Byromville's 283-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Byromville
Each reading below is measured for Byromville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsByromville runs about 283 days between hard freezes (read from Dooly County, the closest normal to Byromville) — 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
MeasuredByromville 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 Byromville is in
Byromville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Byromville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Dooly County.
What Grows in Byromville
Every plant below cleared Byromville's own zone 8b and its 283-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Byromville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Byromville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Byromville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BYROMVILLE DRUMS SITESuperfund · 150 ft
- HIMMS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- DOOLY CO BD OF EDUCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- BYROMVILLE GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- RO P BODREYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- GOLD KIST INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- GOLD KIST INC/ADMUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- WARREN TAYLOR INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- EVERIDGE PINEHURSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- DOOLY GINUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- 14R001Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- 14R003Nitrate · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Byromville'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 Byromville.
Total Sites
91
within ~10 miles of Byromville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Byromville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Byromville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Byromville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 61 sites within ~10 miles of Byromville. 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.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Byromville
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 Byromville average
Your land is one point inside Byromville
Everything above resolves to Byromville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 232 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Dooly 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 Byromville Average
Byromville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Byromville
- ●One soil character for all of Byromville
- ●Frost dates read at Byromville's scale: Feb 21 to Dec 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Byromville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Byromville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Byromville, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Byromville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Byromville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Byromville average
How we know this about Byromville
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 Dooly 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 Byromville
When does frost risk typically end in Byromville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Byromville typically lands around Feb 21, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Byromville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Byromville typically arrives around Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 17, so the watching starts about Nov 1 — about 283 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Byromville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Byromville sees about 283 frost-free days — roughly Feb 21 through Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 14 to Nov 17, about 248 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Byromville?
The federal record around Byromville is a meaningful one — 91 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (61), the nearest Superfund 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 Byromville?
From about Nov 1 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Byromville's scale — its 8b band and its 283-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Byromville'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 Byromville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Byromville's own scale — the 232 acres it covers and 91 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Byromville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 91 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Byromville, the closest Superfund record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Byromville's boundary and the 232 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~283-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Byromville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Byromville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Dooly County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Byromville's 232 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dooly County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dooly 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 Dooly County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Byromville's 232 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Byromville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 232 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund 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 Byromville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across GeorgiaByromville sits outside our named growing regions, so Georgia as a whole is its closest context here.