Hawkinsville, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Hawkinsville, 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 Hawkinsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hawkinsville — the short answer
Hawkinsville, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 281 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 22
- Pulaski County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 30
- Pulaski County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~281
- Pulaski County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 3K 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 Pulaski County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Hawkinsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hawkinsville's 281-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hawkinsville
Each reading below is measured for Hawkinsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsHawkinsville runs about 281 days between hard freezes (read from Pulaski County, the closest normal to Hawkinsville) — 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
MeasuredHawkinsville 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 Hawkinsville is in
Hawkinsville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hawkinsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pulaski County.
What Grows in Hawkinsville
Every plant below cleared Hawkinsville's own zone 8b and its 281-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hawkinsville?
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 Jan 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 30 — 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 Hawkinsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hawkinsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GEORGIA POWER HAWKINSVILLE OPER HQUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- TAYLOR REGIONAL HOSPITALBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- PULASKI COUNTY FORESTRY UNITUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SUN MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HOLLINGSWORTH & VOSE COMPANYToxics Release Inventory · 1.0 mi
- HOLLINGSWORTH & VOSE COMPANYBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- QUICKS Z MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- LAWHORN SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- J LAMPKINUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- BLEDSOE FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- THOMAS DAWSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINSTRATION (Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hawkinsville'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 Hawkinsville.
Total Sites
109
within ~10 miles of Hawkinsville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hawkinsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hawkinsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hawkinsville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 79 sites within ~10 miles of Hawkinsville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Hawkinsville
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 Hawkinsville average
Your land is one point inside Hawkinsville
Everything above resolves to Hawkinsville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 3K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Pulaski 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 Hawkinsville Average
Hawkinsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Hawkinsville
- ●One soil character for all of Hawkinsville
- ●Frost dates read at Hawkinsville's scale: Feb 22 to Nov 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hawkinsville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hawkinsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hawkinsville, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hawkinsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hawkinsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hawkinsville average
How we know this about Hawkinsville
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 Pulaski 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 Hawkinsville
When does frost risk typically end in Hawkinsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hawkinsville typically lands around Feb 22, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Hawkinsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hawkinsville typically arrives around Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 16, so the watching starts about Oct 31 — about 281 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hawkinsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hawkinsville sees about 281 frost-free days — roughly Feb 22 through Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 15 to Nov 16, about 246 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hawkinsville?
The federal record around Hawkinsville shows 109 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (79), 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 Hawkinsville?
From about Oct 31 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hawkinsville's scale — its 8b band and its 281-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hawkinsville'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 Hawkinsville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Hawkinsville's own scale — the 3,440 acres it covers and 109 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hawkinsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 109 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hawkinsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hawkinsville's boundary and the 3,440 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~281-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hawkinsville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Hawkinsville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Pulaski County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hawkinsville's 3,440 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pulaski County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pulaski 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 Pulaski County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hawkinsville's 3,440 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hawkinsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,440 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 Hawkinsville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across GeorgiaHawkinsville sits outside our named growing regions, so Georgia as a whole is its closest context here.