Danielsville, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Danielsville, 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 Danielsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Danielsville — the short answer
Danielsville, Georgia: USDA zone 8a, about 255 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 12
- Madison County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- Madison County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~255
- Madison County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 1K 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 Madison County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Danielsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Danielsville's 255-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Danielsville
Each reading below is measured for Danielsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsDanielsville runs about 255 days between hard freezes (read from Madison County, the closest normal to Danielsville) — 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
MeasuredDanielsville 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 Danielsville is in
Danielsville sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Danielsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Madison County.
What Grows in Danielsville
Every plant below cleared Danielsville's own zone 8a and its 255-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Danielsville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Danielsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Danielsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GOLDEN PANTRY #43Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- CONWELL GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- DANIELSVILLE GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- ANN'S TRADING POSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- W E SIMMONS CONTRACTORS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- DANIELSVILLE TIRE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- WALGREENS #17732Brownfields · 1600 ft
- MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- DANIELSVILLE CORNER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- DANIELSVILLE BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ROYAL FOOD STORE #12Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SCHOOL BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Danielsville'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 Danielsville.
Total Sites
107
within ~10 miles of Danielsville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Danielsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Danielsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Danielsville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 96 sites within ~10 miles of Danielsville. 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.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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Your land is one point inside Danielsville
Everything above resolves to Danielsville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Madison 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 Danielsville Average
Danielsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Danielsville
- ●One soil character for all of Danielsville
- ●Frost dates read at Danielsville's scale: Mar 12 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Danielsville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Danielsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Danielsville average
How we know this about Danielsville
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 Madison 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 Danielsville
When does frost risk typically end in Danielsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Danielsville typically lands around Mar 12, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Danielsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Danielsville typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 255 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Danielsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Danielsville sees about 255 frost-free days — roughly Mar 12 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 2 to Nov 8, about 220 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Danielsville?
The federal record around Danielsville shows 107 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (96), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles 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 Danielsville?
From about Oct 23 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Danielsville's scale — its 8a band and its 255-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Danielsville'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 Danielsville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Danielsville's own scale — the 1,038 acres it covers and 107 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Danielsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 107 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Danielsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Danielsville's boundary and the 1,038 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~255-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Danielsville's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Danielsville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Madison County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Danielsville's 1,038 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Madison County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Madison 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 Madison County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Danielsville's 1,038 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Danielsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,038 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 Danielsville-wide figureread your own land →
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