Hogansville, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Hogansville, 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 Hogansville 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 Hogansville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Hogansville — the short answer
Hogansville, Georgia: USDA zone 8a, about 252 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 13
- Troup County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 20
- Troup County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~252
- Troup County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 5K 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 Troup County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Hogansville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hogansville's 252-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hogansville
Each reading below is measured for Hogansville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsHogansville runs about 252 days between hard freezes (read from Troup County, the closest normal to Hogansville) — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredHogansville sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Hogansville is in
Hogansville sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hogansville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Troup County.
What Grows in Hogansville
Every plant below cleared Hogansville's own zone 8a and its 252-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hogansville?
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 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Hogansville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hogansville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CITY OF HOGANSVILLE PUBLIC WORKS DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- LIL JOES BODY SHOPBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- WINKLES TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- POPS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- CITY OF HOGANSVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- MARATHON GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BO-TEX SALES CORPToxics Release Inventory · 0.8 mi
- GREENWAY #635Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- CATO'S ENTERPRISEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- GEO FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HOGANSVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HOGANSVILLE ASBESTOS SITESuperfund · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hogansville'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 Hogansville.
Total Sites
117
within ~10 miles of Hogansville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hogansville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hogansville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hogansville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Hogansville — Superfund (4 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (11 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.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Hogansville
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 Hogansville average
Your land is one point inside Hogansville
Everything above resolves to Hogansville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 5K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Troup 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 Hogansville Average
Hogansville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Hogansville
- ●One soil character for all of Hogansville
- ●Frost dates read at Hogansville's scale: Mar 13 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hogansville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hogansville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hogansville, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hogansville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hogansville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hogansville average
How we know this about Hogansville
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 Troup 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 Hogansville
When does frost risk typically end in Hogansville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hogansville typically lands around Mar 13, 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 Apr 3.
When is the first frost in Hogansville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hogansville typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 252 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hogansville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hogansville sees about 252 frost-free days — roughly Mar 13 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 3 to Nov 6, about 217 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hogansville?
The federal record around Hogansville is a meaningful one — 117 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (84), 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 Hogansville?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hogansville's scale — its 8a band and its 252-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hogansville'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 Hogansville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Hogansville's own scale — the 4,686 acres it covers and 117 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hogansville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 117 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hogansville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hogansville's boundary and the 4,686 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~252-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hogansville's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Hogansville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Troup County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hogansville's 4,686 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Troup County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Troup 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 Troup County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hogansville's 4,686 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hogansville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,686 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 Hogansville-wide figureread your own land →
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