Faceville, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Faceville, 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 Faceville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Faceville — the short answer
Faceville, Georgia: USDA zone 9a, about 293 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 12
- Decatur County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 2
- Decatur County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~293
- Decatur County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town 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 Decatur County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Faceville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Faceville's 293-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Faceville
Each reading below is measured for Faceville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsFaceville runs about 293 days between hard freezes (read from Decatur County, the closest normal to Faceville) — 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
MeasuredFaceville 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 Faceville is in
Faceville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Faceville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Decatur County.
What Grows in Faceville
Every plant below cleared Faceville's own zone 9a and its 293-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Faceville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 2 — 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 Faceville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Faceville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FACEVILLE COMMUNITY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- STATE LINE COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- 09E521Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- 08D092Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- 08D090Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- BAINBRIDGEPFAS · 2.2 mi
- 08E031Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- JOHNSON BROTHERS FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- DOWNS FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- RECOVERYS LIL OLE COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- SMITH FARM THOMAS BUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- 08E019Nitrate · 5.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Faceville'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 Faceville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Faceville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Faceville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Faceville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 42 sites within ~10 miles of Faceville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Faceville
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 Faceville average
Your land is one point inside Faceville
Everything above resolves to Faceville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Decatur 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 Faceville Average
Faceville Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Faceville
- ●One soil character for all of Faceville
- ●Frost dates read at Faceville's scale: Feb 12 to Dec 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Faceville's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Faceville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Faceville, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Faceville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Faceville average
How we know this about Faceville
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 Decatur 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 Faceville
When does frost risk typically end in Faceville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Faceville typically lands around Feb 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 Mar 5.
When is the first frost in Faceville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Faceville typically arrives around Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 18, so the watching starts about Nov 2 — about 293 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Faceville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Faceville sees about 293 frost-free days — roughly Feb 12 through Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 5 to Nov 18, about 258 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Faceville?
The federal record around Faceville is a meaningful one — 106 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (57), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Faceville?
From about Nov 2 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Faceville's scale — its 9a band and its 293-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Faceville'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 Faceville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Faceville's own scale — the 1,639 acres it covers and 106 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Faceville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 106 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Faceville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Faceville's boundary and the 1,639 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~293-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Faceville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Faceville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Decatur County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Faceville's 1,639 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Decatur County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Decatur 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 Decatur County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Faceville's 1,639 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Faceville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,639 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 Faceville-wide figureread your own land →
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