Luthersville, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Luthersville, 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 Luthersville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Luthersville — the short answer
Luthersville, Georgia: USDA zone 8a, about 252 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 15
- Meriwether County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- Meriwether County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~252
- Meriwether 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 Meriwether County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Luthersville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Luthersville's 252-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Luthersville
Each reading below is measured for Luthersville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLuthersville runs about 252 days between hard freezes (read from Meriwether County, the closest normal to Luthersville) — 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
MeasuredLuthersville 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 Luthersville is in
Luthersville sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Luthersville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Meriwether County.
What Grows in Luthersville
Every plant below cleared Luthersville'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 Luthersville?
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 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Luthersville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Luthersville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PATRIOTS CORNER MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 75 ft
- PRINCE FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- CITY OF LUTHERSVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- LUTHERSVILLE GA RMLRUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- DODDS LOGGING CO SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- HIWASSEE LAND CO COMPARTMENT OFFUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- SEWELL GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- BUBBA DOOS ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PIT STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- PEMS TRADING POSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- BARBERS SUPERMARKET #21Underground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- FLYING N ESTATESUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Luthersville'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 Luthersville.
Total Sites
86
within ~10 miles of Luthersville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Luthersville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Luthersville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Luthersville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Luthersville — Superfund (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (8 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Luthersville
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 Luthersville average
Your land is one point inside Luthersville
Everything above resolves to Luthersville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Meriwether 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 Luthersville Average
Luthersville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Luthersville
- ●One soil character for all of Luthersville
- ●Frost dates read at Luthersville's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Luthersville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Luthersville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Luthersville, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Luthersville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Luthersville average
How we know this about Luthersville
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 Meriwether 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 Luthersville
When does frost risk typically end in Luthersville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Luthersville typically lands around Mar 15, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Luthersville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Luthersville typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 252 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Luthersville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Luthersville sees about 252 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Nov 8, about 217 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Luthersville?
The federal record around Luthersville is a meaningful one — 86 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (69), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Luthersville?
From about Oct 23 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Luthersville's scale — its 8a band and its 252-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Luthersville'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 Luthersville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Luthersville's own scale — the 2,039 acres it covers and 86 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Luthersville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 86 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Luthersville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Luthersville's boundary and the 2,039 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 Luthersville's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Luthersville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Meriwether County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Luthersville's 2,039 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Meriwether County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Meriwether 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 Meriwether County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Luthersville's 2,039 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Luthersville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,039 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 Luthersville-wide figureread your own land →
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