Hazlehurst, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Hazlehurst, 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 Hazlehurst lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hazlehurst — the short answer
Hazlehurst, Georgia: USDA zone 9a, about 290 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 17
- Jeff Davis County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 4
- Jeff Davis County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~290
- Jeff Davis 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 Jeff Davis County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Hazlehurst's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hazlehurst's 290-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hazlehurst
Each reading below is measured for Hazlehurst itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsHazlehurst runs about 290 days between hard freezes (read from Jeff Davis County, the closest normal to Hazlehurst) — 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
MeasuredHazlehurst 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 Hazlehurst is in
Hazlehurst sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hazlehurst's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Jeff Davis County is mostly Southern Coastal Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Hazlehurst
Every plant below cleared Hazlehurst's own zone 9a and its 290-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hazlehurst?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Hazlehurst
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hazlehurst. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JACKETS CORNER #167Underground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- CITY OF HAZLEHURSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- JEFF DAVIS COUNTY ROAD DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- JEFF DAVIS COUNTY FUEL STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- FLASH FOODS #194Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- LARRY TROWELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CONTINENTAL FORESTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CONTINENTAL WOOD YARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- FAIRWAY TRANSPORTATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- EARTH MOVERS AND LAND CLEARINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- THOMPSON HARDWOOD INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- JOHNSON BROTHERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hazlehurst'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 Hazlehurst.
Total Sites
150
within ~10 miles of Hazlehurst
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hazlehurst
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hazlehurst
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hazlehurst, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 120 sites within ~10 miles of Hazlehurst. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Hazlehurst
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 Hazlehurst average
Your land is one point inside Hazlehurst
Everything above resolves to Hazlehurst as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 3K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Jeff Davis 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 Hazlehurst Average
Hazlehurst Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Hazlehurst
- ●One soil character for all of Hazlehurst
- ●Frost dates read at Hazlehurst's scale: Feb 17 to Dec 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hazlehurst's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hazlehurst
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hazlehurst, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hazlehurst averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hazlehurst — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hazlehurst average
How we know this about Hazlehurst
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 Jeff Davis 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 Hazlehurst
When does frost risk typically end in Hazlehurst?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hazlehurst typically lands around Feb 17, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Hazlehurst?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hazlehurst typically arrives around Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 20, so the watching starts about Nov 4 — about 290 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hazlehurst?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hazlehurst sees about 290 frost-free days — roughly Feb 17 through Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 10 to Nov 20, about 255 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hazlehurst?
The federal record around Hazlehurst is a meaningful one — 150 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (120), 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 Hazlehurst?
From about Nov 4 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hazlehurst's scale — its 9a band and its 290-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hazlehurst'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 Hazlehurst’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Hazlehurst's own scale — the 3,029 acres it covers and 150 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hazlehurst's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 150 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hazlehurst, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hazlehurst's boundary and the 3,029 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~290-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Hazlehurst sits in the Southeastern Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Hazlehurst has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Jeff Davis County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hazlehurst's 3,029 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jeff Davis County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jeff Davis 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 Jeff Davis County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hazlehurst's 3,029 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hazlehurst you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,029 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 Hazlehurst-wide figureread your own land →
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