Hapeville, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Hapeville, 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 Hapeville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hapeville — the short answer
Hapeville, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 267 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 6
- Fulton County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 28
- Fulton County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~267
- Fulton 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 Fulton County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Hapeville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hapeville's 267-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hapeville
Each reading below is measured for Hapeville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsHapeville runs about 267 days between hard freezes (read from Fulton County, the closest normal to Hapeville) — 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
MeasuredHapeville 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 Hapeville is in
Hapeville sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hapeville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Fulton County.
What Grows in Hapeville
Every plant below cleared Hapeville's own zone 8b and its 267-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hapeville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Hapeville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hapeville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HAPEVILLE LINCOLN MERCURYUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- WALT FREEMAN CONST CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- METRO PCSUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- ATL TradeportUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- D&N ELECTRICUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- CITY OF HAPEVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- ABDUL RASHID KHAN/ BANO & SONS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- SOUTHMETRO OPERATIONS CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- DISTRIBUTION SERVICES OF ATLANATUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- VIRGINIA AVE AMOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- FORMER CHECKER CABUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- HAPEVILLE RADIATOR INCBrownfields · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hapeville'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 Hapeville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hapeville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hapeville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hapeville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Hapeville — Superfund (75 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (2,020 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Hapeville
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 Hapeville average
Your land is one point inside Hapeville
Everything above resolves to Hapeville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Fulton 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 Hapeville Average
Hapeville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Hapeville
- ●One soil character for all of Hapeville
- ●Frost dates read at Hapeville's scale: Mar 6 to Nov 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hapeville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hapeville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hapeville, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hapeville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hapeville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hapeville average
How we know this about Hapeville
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 Fulton 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 Hapeville
When does frost risk typically end in Hapeville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hapeville typically lands around Mar 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Hapeville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hapeville typically arrives around Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 14, so the watching starts about Oct 29 — about 267 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hapeville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hapeville sees about 267 frost-free days — roughly Mar 6 through Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 27 to Nov 14, about 232 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hapeville?
The federal record around Hapeville is a meaningful one — 2,715 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (2,020), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Hapeville?
From about Oct 29 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hapeville's scale — its 8b band and its 267-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hapeville'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 Hapeville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Hapeville's own scale — the 1,523 acres it covers and 2,715 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hapeville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 2,715 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hapeville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hapeville's boundary and the 1,523 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~267-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hapeville's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Hapeville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Fulton County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hapeville's 1,523 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Fulton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Fulton 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 Fulton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hapeville's 1,523 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hapeville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,523 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 Hapeville-wide figureread your own land →
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