Nahunta, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Nahunta, 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 Nahunta 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 Nahunta — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Nahunta — the short answer
Nahunta, Georgia: USDA zone 9a, about 285 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 21
- Brantley County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 3
- Brantley County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~285
- Brantley 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 Brantley County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Nahunta's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Nahunta's 285-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Nahunta
Each reading below is measured for Nahunta itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsNahunta runs about 285 days between hard freezes (read from Brantley County, the closest normal to Nahunta) — 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
MeasuredNahunta 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 Nahunta is in
Nahunta sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Nahunta's own centroid rather than borrowed from Brantley County.
What Grows in Nahunta
Every plant below cleared Nahunta's own zone 9a and its 285-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Nahunta?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 21 (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. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Nahunta
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Nahunta. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OKEFENOKE EMCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- GA DOT 10531 BRANTLEY CO ROUTINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- CITY OF NAHUNTAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BRANTLEY TELEPHONE CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- AT&T\NAHUNTA RADIO RELAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BRANTELY CO ROAD DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- GA FCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- WOODARDS AUTO CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- FLASH FOODS #4Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- 30H001Nitrate · 1600 ft
- EZ MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- BP FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Nahunta'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 Nahunta.
Total Sites
47
within ~10 miles of Nahunta
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Nahunta
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Nahunta
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Nahunta, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Nahunta — Toxics Release Inventory (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (30 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Nahunta
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 Nahunta average
Your land is one point inside Nahunta
Everything above resolves to Nahunta as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Brantley 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 Nahunta Average
Nahunta Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Nahunta
- ●One soil character for all of Nahunta
- ●Frost dates read at Nahunta's scale: Feb 21 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Nahunta's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Nahunta
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Nahunta, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Nahunta averages can't show:
We read public map data around Nahunta — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Nahunta average
How we know this about Nahunta
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 Brantley 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 Nahunta
When does frost risk typically end in Nahunta?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Nahunta typically lands around Feb 21, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Nahunta?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Nahunta 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 285 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Nahunta?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Nahunta sees about 285 frost-free days — roughly Feb 21 through Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 14 to Nov 19, about 250 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Nahunta?
The federal record around Nahunta is light — 47 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (30), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Nahunta?
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 Nahunta's scale — its 9a band and its 285-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Nahunta'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 Nahunta’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Nahunta's own scale — the 1,804 acres it covers and 47 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Nahunta's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 47 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Nahunta, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Nahunta's boundary and the 1,804 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~285-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Nahunta's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Nahunta has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Brantley County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Nahunta's 1,804 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Brantley County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Brantley 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 Brantley County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Nahunta's 1,804 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Nahunta you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,804 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 Nahunta-wide figureread your own land →
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