Kite, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Kite, 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 Kite lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kite — the short answer
Kite, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 275 days between hard freezes, across 516 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 27
- Johnson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 29
- Johnson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~275
- Johnson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 516 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 Johnson County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Kite's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kite's 275-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kite
Each reading below is measured for Kite itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsKite runs about 275 days between hard freezes (read from Johnson County, the closest normal to Kite) — 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
MeasuredKite 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 Kite is in
Kite sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kite's own centroid rather than borrowed from Johnson County.
What Grows in Kite
Every plant below cleared Kite's own zone 8b and its 275-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kite?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 30; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Kite
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kite. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- COLSTONS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- PENNY SAVERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- LEES SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- CLAUDE ANDERSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- 25U002Nitrate · 5.4 mi
- 25W001Nitrate · 6.5 mi
- GA STATE PATROL POST 19Underground Storage Tanks · 7.4 mi
- CRAFTS COUNTY CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- CONTINENTAL FOREST INVST INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- BOB YOUMANSUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- EDS TRUCK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- LUTHER QUICKUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
3 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kite'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 Kite.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kite
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Kite
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 Kite average
Your land is one point inside Kite
Everything above resolves to Kite as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 516 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Johnson 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 Kite Average
Kite Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Kite
- ●One soil character for all of Kite
- ●Frost dates read at Kite's scale: Feb 27 to Nov 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kite's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kite
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kite, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kite averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kite — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kite average
How we know this about Kite
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 Johnson 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 Kite
When does frost risk typically end in Kite?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kite typically lands around Feb 27, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Kite?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kite typically arrives around Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 15, so the watching starts about Oct 30 — about 275 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kite?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kite sees about 275 frost-free days — roughly Feb 27 through Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 20 to Nov 15, about 240 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kite?
The federal record around Kite is light — 18 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (14), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Kite?
From about Oct 30 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kite's scale — its 8b band and its 275-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kite'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 Kite’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Kite's own scale — the 516 acres it covers and 18 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kite's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 18 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kite, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kite's boundary and the 516 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~275-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kite's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Kite has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Johnson County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kite's 516 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Johnson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Johnson 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 Johnson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kite's 516 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kite you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 516 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Kite-wide figureread your own land →
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