Coweta County, in Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Coweta County lies within the Piedmont — a regional growing area with its own character.
Grounded in USDA PHZM 2023 · Growable Ground suitability scoring · NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Coweta County holds more than one microclimate.
Soils and elevations shift across Coweta County, so your frost dates and drainage aren't the county average. 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 Coweta County — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Coweta County — the short answer
Coweta County, Georgia: USDA zone 8a, about 246 days between hard freezes, across 282K acres.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F
- Days between freezes
- ~246
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F
- County area
- 282K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are county 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 8a is Coweta County's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Coweta County's 246-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Heat and winter chill in Coweta County
Across a year, Coweta County accumulates about 4,700 growing degree days above 50°F, about 715 fewer than the middle Georgia county — ahead of 38 of Georgia’s 159 counties. Degree days are the heat a crop actually gets to work with — more of them is more room to ripen a long-season crop before the freeze closes the window.
Winter banks about 1,487 hours below 45°F, 351 more than the Georgia middle of 1,136. Chill is what tells a fruit tree its dormancy is over, and it is set by climate rather than by anything you can build.
Grounded in PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University — 1991–2020 monthly normals
Soil in Coweta County
Across Coweta County, the ground is predominantly Ultisols, where Cecil, Madison, and Appling are the most extensive named soil series. The soil is generally well drained with a sandy loam surface. Topsoil pH runs about 5.5, strongly acidic. Rainfall drains through hydrologic group B soils.
Soil order
Ultisols
Drainage
Well drained
Prime farmland
21%
Hydric soils
1%
Soil still varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
How the ground varies across Coweta County
The USDA soil survey maps 95% of Coweta County as well drained — but another 3% drains differently: 1% moderately well drained, 1% poorly drained.
Cecil is the most extensive named soil at 35% of mapped acres, then Madison (34%) and Appling (8%).
Which of them your own lot sits on is a parcel question, not a county one. Check your address for the survey at your boundary.
What this means for growing in Coweta County
Each reading below is measured for Coweta County itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Drainage
MeasuredThe dominant soils across Coweta County are well drained, in hydrologic group B — ground that drains quickly.
The upside is soil you can work early in spring and roots that never drown; the cost is that fast-draining ground dries out fast and leaches nutrients away before plants can use them.
Work in compost and mulch to hold moisture and feed, and water more often in short doses than deep and rarely.
USDA NRCS SSURGO
Surface pH
MeasuredTopsoil across Coweta County runs about pH 5.5, on the acidic side.
Blueberries, potatoes, and rhododendrons thrive in it, but most vegetables start locking out nutrients below about pH 6.0 and grow pale and stunted no matter how much you feed them.
A measured lime application raises pH for the crops that need it — but test first, because the right rate depends on your own soil, not the county average.
USDA NRCS SSURGO
Season length
MeasuredCoweta County runs about 246 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
MeasuredCoweta County sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Coweta County is in
Coweta County sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. One consistent ecological setting across the whole county.
What Grows in Coweta County
We scored all 1,086 plants against Coweta County's own USDA zone 8a and its own 246-day season between hard freezes, using the same matching engine that runs a full parcel report. These cleared both. Sun, soil pH and drainage vary lot by lot — those are the parcel questions below. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile.
Is it too late to plant in Coweta County?
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 Feb 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 16 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What gets applied to farmland in Coweta County
USGS estimates 4,135 lb of 2,4-d on Coweta County farmland in 2019, its largest by weight, ahead of Atrazine (1,953 lb) and Glyphosate (843 lb).
Farmland across the whole county, not any one lot. Check your address for the site-by-site record.
Safe to Grow Here?
What the federal record shows across Coweta County — and how to grow with it.
We checked the federal record across Coweta County — 374 documented sites across 6 of the 9 source types we track.
The most significant on record: 6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed). Sites tracked in EPA's Superfund program — from assessment-stage CERCLIS entries to confirmed National Priorities List cleanup sites.
There's a meaningful federal record across Coweta County — worth a look before you plant food, not a reason to hold back from growing. Proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. A soil test before new food beds is the sensible precaution here, and the map shows exactly which sites sit where, so you can see what's actually near you.
Sources: EPA, USGS — 1.8M documented sites tracked nationwide across 9 federal source types.
What's on the federal record near Coweta County
Closest first, across Coweta County. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- COWETA CO FIRE STATION #6Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- WOODIE WOOD GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- PIEDMONT NEWNAN HOSPITALBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- PIEDMONT NEWNAN HOSPITALUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SHAW INDUSTRIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- EASTSIDE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- THREE POINTS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- FIVE POINTS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- FORMER PIKE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- BROWN STEEL/BROWN FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- CALDWELL TANKS ALLIANCE LLC - LOWER FAYETTEVILLE FACILITYToxics Release Inventory · 1.3 mi
- RAEES PIRANIUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Coweta County'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 Coweta County.
Total Sites
374
across Coweta County
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
across Coweta County
Severity Distribution
across Coweta County
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Coweta County, two things run higher than the national average across Coweta County — PFAS (4 sites) and Superfund (6 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Coweta County
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 Coweta County average
Your land is one point inside Coweta County
Everything above resolves to Coweta County as a whole — one PHZM band and one county frost record, read across 282K 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 county 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 county average.
Your Lot vs the Coweta County Average
Coweta County Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Coweta County
- ●One soil character for all of Coweta County
- ●Frost dates read at Coweta County's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Coweta County's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your parcel in Coweta County
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Coweta County, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Coweta County averages can't show:
We read public map data around Coweta County — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Coweta County average
How we know this about Coweta County
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at county grain; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at this county’s own record where one resolves, and the labelled statewide window where none does; soils from the USDA NRCS SSURGO survey, area-weighted across the county’s own map units; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination and pesticide records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Where Coweta County carries no record of its own, the figure is inherited and labelled — the resolution ledger below names each.
Common questions about Coweta County
When does frost risk typically end in Coweta County?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Coweta County typically lands around Mar 15, 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 5.
How long is the growing season in Coweta County?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Coweta County sees about 246 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Nov 2, about 211 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Coweta County?
The federal record around Coweta County is a meaningful one — 374 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (251), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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.
Everything above is measured at Coweta County's scale — its 8a band and its 246-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Coweta County's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
Will It Grow Here?
Zone fit is the first question — each answer below reads Georgia's frost window, season length, and soil profile against the plant's real requirements.
What this page reads at Coweta County’s own scale
8 of the readings below were taken at Coweta County's own scale — its own ~246-day span between 28°F freezes, the 3 most extensive soil series mapped here and 374 documented sites inside its boundary; one is borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Coweta County's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Coweta County's own 28°F hard-freeze dates and its ~246-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- The soil order, drainage, surface pH, and the 3 most extensive named soil series mapped in Coweta CountyUSDA NRCS SSURGO
- 374 documented contamination sites inside the county boundary, distance-sorted from its center — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles outFederal environmental registers
- Coweta County's boundary and the 282,250 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~246-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Coweta County sitting wholly inside the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Which agricultural compounds go onto Coweta County farmland, and roughly how muchUSGS NAWQA EPest county estimates
Inherited from a wider read
- The growing challenges every Georgia grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Georgia
What this page can’t tell you
- How the season shifts across Coweta County — the ~246 days above is one reading at its centre; the 12 towns below each carry their owntowns in this county →
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Coweta County's 282,250 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which of those 374 documented sites actually reaches your soil — that needs your address, the wind, and the groundwater directionhow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — none of it survives being averaged over Coweta Countyread your own land →