Doerun, 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.
Among the crops suited to this profile: artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Doerun, 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 Doerun lot. 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 Doerun — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Doerun — the short answer
Doerun, Georgia: USDA zone 9a, about 305 days between hard freezes, across 822 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 9
- Colquitt County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 11
- Colquitt County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~305
- Colquitt County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 822 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 Colquitt County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Doerun's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Doerun's 305-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Doerun
Each reading below is measured for Doerun itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsDoerun runs about 305 days between hard freezes (read from Colquitt County, the closest normal to Doerun) — 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
MeasuredDoerun 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 Doerun is in
Doerun sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Doerun's own centroid rather than borrowed from Colquitt County.
What Grows in Doerun
Every plant below cleared Doerun's own zone 9a and its 305-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Doerun?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 11 — 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 Doerun
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Doerun. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GA DOT #10475 DOERUN MAINT HDQTUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- 14J002Nitrate · 450 ft
- PIGGLY WIGGLY EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- H&H SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- QUICK MART #5Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CHARLIES FRIED CHICKENUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- QUICK MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- ADENS MINIT MARKET #54Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- 14J001Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- COUNTRY CROSSROADSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- 15J003Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- BRIDGEBORO FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Doerun'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 Doerun.
Total Sites
56
within ~10 miles of Doerun
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
28 nitrate monitoring sites
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Doerun
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Doerun, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 28 sites within ~10 miles of Doerun. 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.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Doerun
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 Doerun average
Your land is one point inside Doerun
Everything above resolves to Doerun as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 822 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Colquitt 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 Doerun Average
Doerun Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Doerun
- ●One soil character for all of Doerun
- ●Frost dates read at Doerun's scale: Feb 9 to Dec 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Doerun's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Doerun
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Doerun, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Doerun averages can't show:
We read public map data around Doerun — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Doerun average
How we know this about Doerun
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 Colquitt 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 Doerun
When does frost risk typically end in Doerun?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Doerun typically lands around Feb 9, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Doerun?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Doerun typically arrives around Dec 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 27, so the watching starts about Nov 11 — about 305 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Doerun?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Doerun sees about 305 frost-free days — roughly Feb 9 through Dec 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 2 to Nov 27, about 270 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Doerun?
The federal record around Doerun shows 56 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (28), 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 Doerun?
From about Nov 11 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Doerun's scale — its 9a band and its 305-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Doerun'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 Doerun’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Doerun's own scale — the 822 acres it covers and 56 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Doerun's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 56 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Doerun, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Doerun's boundary and the 822 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~305-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Doerun's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Doerun has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Colquitt County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Doerun's 822 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Colquitt County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Colquitt 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 Colquitt County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Doerun's 822 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Doerun you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 822 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 Doerun-wide figureread your own land →