Good Hope, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Good Hope, 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 Good Hope 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 Good Hope — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Good Hope — the short answer
Good Hope, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 262 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 9
- Walton County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- Walton County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~262
- Walton 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 Walton County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Good Hope's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Good Hope's 262-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Good Hope
Each reading below is measured for Good Hope itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsGood Hope runs about 262 days between hard freezes (read from Walton County, the closest normal to Good Hope) — 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
MeasuredGood Hope 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 Good Hope is in
Good Hope sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Good Hope's own centroid rather than borrowed from Walton County.
What Grows in Good Hope
Every plant below cleared Good Hope's own zone 8b and its 262-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Good Hope?
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 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Good Hope
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Good Hope. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CARL TOWLER SVC STATION/TOWLERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- GOOD HOPE GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MALCOLM BROS PARTNERSHIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- LOWE'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- DONALD POSS FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- WALTON CO FORESTRY UNITUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- TONY PRATHERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- ROBISON STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- WALTON MORGAN TRAINING CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- JAMES F EDMONDSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- TOMMY & RICKY DILLARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- PEGGYS WASTE OILBrownfields · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Good Hope'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 Good Hope.
Total Sites
179
within ~10 miles of Good Hope
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
10 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Good Hope
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Good Hope
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Good Hope, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 137 sites within ~10 miles of Good Hope. 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.
Check your specific parcel in Good Hope
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 Good Hope average
Your land is one point inside Good Hope
Everything above resolves to Good Hope as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Walton 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 Good Hope Average
Good Hope Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Good Hope
- ●One soil character for all of Good Hope
- ●Frost dates read at Good Hope's scale: Mar 9 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Good Hope's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Good Hope
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Good Hope, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Good Hope — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Good Hope average
How we know this about Good Hope
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 Walton 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 Good Hope
When does frost risk typically end in Good Hope?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Good Hope typically lands around Mar 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 30.
When is the first frost in Good Hope?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Good Hope typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 262 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Good Hope?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Good Hope sees about 262 frost-free days — roughly Mar 9 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 30 to Nov 12, about 227 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Good Hope?
The federal record around Good Hope shows 179 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (137), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Good Hope?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Good Hope's scale — its 8b band and its 262-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Good Hope'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 Good Hope’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Good Hope's own scale — the 1,179 acres it covers and 179 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Good Hope's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 179 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Good Hope, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Good Hope's boundary and the 1,179 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~262-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Good Hope's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Good Hope has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Walton County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Good Hope's 1,179 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Walton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Walton 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 Walton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Good Hope's 1,179 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Good Hope you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,179 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Good Hope-wide figureread your own land →
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