Davisboro, 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 Davisboro, 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 Davisboro lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Davisboro — the short answer
Davisboro, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 274 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 28
- Washington County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 29
- Washington County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~274
- Washington 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 Washington County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Davisboro's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Davisboro's 274-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Davisboro
Each reading below is measured for Davisboro itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsDavisboro runs about 274 days between hard freezes (read from Washington County, the closest normal to Davisboro) — 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
MeasuredDavisboro 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 Davisboro is in
Davisboro sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Davisboro's own centroid rather than borrowed from Washington County.
What Grows in Davisboro
Every plant below cleared Davisboro's own zone 8b and its 274-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Davisboro?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 29 — 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 Davisboro
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Davisboro. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TAPPLEYS LAUNDROMAT (FORMER SERVICE STATION)Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- DAVISBORO GROCERY & GAS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- 25X012Nitrate · 1900 ft
- GA FCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- WASHINGTON STATE PRISONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- OLD SAHARA CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- MAA KRUPA LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- HANCOCK FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- 25Y001Nitrate · 5.5 mi
- GA DOT #10286/RIDDLEVILLE MAINTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- CJ'S MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- SEMINOLE INVESTMENT PROPERTIES LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Davisboro'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 Davisboro.
Total Sites
29
within ~10 miles of Davisboro
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Davisboro
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Davisboro
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Davisboro, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Davisboro — Nitrate (8 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (19 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Davisboro
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Davisboro
Everything above resolves to Davisboro as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Washington 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 Davisboro Average
Davisboro Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Davisboro
- ●One soil character for all of Davisboro
- ●Frost dates read at Davisboro's scale: Feb 28 to Nov 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Davisboro's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Davisboro
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Davisboro, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Davisboro averages can't show:
We read public map data around Davisboro — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Davisboro average
How we know this about Davisboro
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 Washington 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 Davisboro
When does frost risk typically end in Davisboro?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Davisboro typically lands around Feb 28, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Davisboro?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Davisboro typically arrives around Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 15, so the watching starts about Oct 30 — about 274 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Davisboro?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Davisboro sees about 274 frost-free days — roughly Feb 28 through Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 21 to Nov 15, about 239 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Davisboro?
The federal record around Davisboro is a meaningful one — 29 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (19), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Davisboro?
From about Oct 30 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Davisboro's scale — its 8b band and its 274-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Davisboro'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 Davisboro’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Davisboro's own scale — the 1,953 acres it covers and 29 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Davisboro's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 29 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Davisboro, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Davisboro's boundary and the 1,953 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~274-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Davisboro's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Davisboro has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Washington County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Davisboro's 1,953 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Washington County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Washington 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 Washington County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Davisboro's 1,953 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Davisboro you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,953 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Davisboro-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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