Ohoopee, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
These conditions suit artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Ohoopee, 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 Ohoopee lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Ohoopee — the short answer
Ohoopee, Georgia: USDA zone 9a, about 294 days between hard freezes, across 111 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 16
- Toombs County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 7
- Toombs County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~294
- Toombs County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 111 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 Toombs County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Ohoopee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ohoopee's 294-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ohoopee
Each reading below is measured for Ohoopee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsOhoopee runs about 294 days between hard freezes (read from Toombs County, the closest normal to Ohoopee) — 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
MeasuredOhoopee 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 Ohoopee is in
Ohoopee sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Ohoopee's own centroid rather than borrowed from Toombs County.
What Grows in Ohoopee
Every plant below cleared Ohoopee's own zone 9a and its 294-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ohoopee?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 7 — 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 Ohoopee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ohoopee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 28R001Nitrate · 1300 ft
- 5 POINTS GROCERIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- HERCULES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- ALTAMAHA EMC GENERATORUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- 292 COUNTRY PANTRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- SOUTHERN OIL COMPANY LLCBrownfields · 4.2 mi
- LYONSPFAS · 4.5 mi
- TOOMBS COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- GA DOT 10526 TOOMBS CO MAINT HQUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- TOOMBS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL BUS SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- RED'S RUN INUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- B AND J MINIT MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ohoopee'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 Ohoopee.
Total Sites
119
within ~10 miles of Ohoopee
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ohoopee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ohoopee
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ohoopee, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 93 sites within ~10 miles of Ohoopee. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Ohoopee
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 Ohoopee average
Your land is one point inside Ohoopee
Everything above resolves to Ohoopee as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 111 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Toombs County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’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 town 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 Ohoopee Average
Ohoopee Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Ohoopee
- ●One soil character for all of Ohoopee
- ●Frost dates read at Ohoopee's scale: Feb 16 to Dec 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ohoopee's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Ohoopee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Ohoopee, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Ohoopee averages can't show:
We read public map data around Ohoopee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ohoopee average
How we know this about Ohoopee
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Toombs 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 town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-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 Ohoopee
When does frost risk typically end in Ohoopee?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ohoopee typically lands around Feb 16, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Ohoopee?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ohoopee typically arrives around Dec 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 23, so the watching starts about Nov 7 — about 294 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ohoopee?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ohoopee sees about 294 frost-free days — roughly Feb 16 through Dec 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 9 to Nov 23, about 259 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ohoopee?
The federal record around Ohoopee is a meaningful one — 119 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (93), the nearest Nitrate 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 Ohoopee?
From about Nov 7 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ohoopee's scale — its 9a band and its 294-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ohoopee'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 Ohoopee’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Ohoopee's own scale — the 111 acres it covers and 119 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ohoopee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 119 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ohoopee, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ohoopee's boundary and the 111 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~294-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ohoopee's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Ohoopee has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Toombs County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Ohoopee's 111 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Toombs County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Toombs 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 Toombs County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Ohoopee's 111 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ohoopee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 111 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Ohoopee-wide figureread your own land →
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