Jeffersonville, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Jeffersonville, 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 Jeffersonville 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 Jeffersonville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Jeffersonville — the short answer
Jeffersonville, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 282 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 24
- Twiggs County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 3
- Twiggs County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~282
- Twiggs 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 Twiggs County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Jeffersonville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jeffersonville's 282-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jeffersonville
Each reading below is measured for Jeffersonville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsJeffersonville runs about 282 days between hard freezes (read from Twiggs County, the closest normal to Jeffersonville) — 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
MeasuredJeffersonville 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 Jeffersonville is in
Jeffersonville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Jeffersonville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Twiggs County.
What Grows in Jeffersonville
Every plant below cleared Jeffersonville's own zone 8b and its 282-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Jeffersonville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 3 — 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 Jeffersonville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jeffersonville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CITY OF JEFFERSONVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- EXPRESS MART #2Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- METHVINS IGAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- ALLTEL/CTC OF THE SOUTH JEFFERSOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- PATTERSON GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- NORD KAOLIN COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- TWIGGS COUNTY FORESTRY UNITUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- GRADY W POPEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- FLOYDS MINI STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- UNKNOWNUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- DOT 10396/OLF JEFFERSON MAINT HQUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- TWIGGS COUNTY ROAD DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Jeffersonville'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 Jeffersonville.
Total Sites
69
within ~10 miles of Jeffersonville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Jeffersonville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jeffersonville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Jeffersonville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 28 sites within ~10 miles of Jeffersonville. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Jeffersonville
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 Jeffersonville average
Your land is one point inside Jeffersonville
Everything above resolves to Jeffersonville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Twiggs 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 Jeffersonville Average
Jeffersonville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Jeffersonville
- ●One soil character for all of Jeffersonville
- ●Frost dates read at Jeffersonville's scale: Feb 24 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jeffersonville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Jeffersonville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Jeffersonville, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Jeffersonville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Jeffersonville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Jeffersonville average
How we know this about Jeffersonville
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 Twiggs 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 Jeffersonville
When does frost risk typically end in Jeffersonville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jeffersonville typically lands around Feb 24, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Jeffersonville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jeffersonville typically arrives around Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 19, so the watching starts about Nov 3 — about 282 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jeffersonville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jeffersonville sees about 282 frost-free days — roughly Feb 24 through Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 17 to Nov 19, about 247 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jeffersonville?
The federal record around Jeffersonville shows 69 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (38), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Jeffersonville?
From about Nov 3 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Jeffersonville's scale — its 8b band and its 282-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jeffersonville'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 Jeffersonville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Jeffersonville's own scale — the 2,339 acres it covers and 69 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jeffersonville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 69 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jeffersonville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jeffersonville's boundary and the 2,339 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~282-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Jeffersonville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Jeffersonville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Twiggs County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Jeffersonville's 2,339 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Twiggs County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Twiggs 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 Twiggs County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jeffersonville's 2,339 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jeffersonville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,339 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 Jeffersonville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across GeorgiaJeffersonville sits outside our named growing regions, so Georgia as a whole is its closest context here.