Pinehurst, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pinehurst, 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 Pinehurst lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pinehurst — the short answer
Pinehurst, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 283 days between hard freezes, across 651 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 21
- Dooly County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 1
- Dooly County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~283
- Dooly County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 651 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 Dooly County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Pinehurst's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pinehurst's 283-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pinehurst
Each reading below is measured for Pinehurst itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsPinehurst runs about 283 days between hard freezes (read from Dooly County, the closest normal to Pinehurst) — 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
MeasuredPinehurst 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 Pinehurst is in
Pinehurst sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pinehurst's own centroid rather than borrowed from Dooly County.
What Grows in Pinehurst
Every plant below cleared Pinehurst's own zone 8b and its 283-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pinehurst?
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 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 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Pinehurst
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pinehurst. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 15R002Nitrate · 500 ft
- 15R004Nitrate · 1700 ft
- WILLIAM L HORNE JRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- PINEHURST GAS N GOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- JAMES P WEST JRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- MARSHALL A DAVIS FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- RICHARD DOSTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- EUGENE MCCLESKEYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- JOE C WILLIAMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- UPS UNADILLA (UST)Underground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC. (UPS) - UNADILLABrownfields · 3.3 mi
- ALLSTATE TRUCK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pinehurst'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 Pinehurst.
Total Sites
111
within ~10 miles of Pinehurst
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pinehurst
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pinehurst
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pinehurst, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 83 sites within ~10 miles of Pinehurst. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Pinehurst
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 Pinehurst average
Your land is one point inside Pinehurst
Everything above resolves to Pinehurst as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 651 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Dooly 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 Pinehurst Average
Pinehurst Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Pinehurst
- ●One soil character for all of Pinehurst
- ●Frost dates read at Pinehurst's scale: Feb 21 to Dec 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pinehurst's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pinehurst
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pinehurst, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pinehurst averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pinehurst — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pinehurst average
How we know this about Pinehurst
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 Dooly 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 Pinehurst
When does frost risk typically end in Pinehurst?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pinehurst 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 Pinehurst?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pinehurst typically arrives around Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 17, so the watching starts about Nov 1 — about 283 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pinehurst?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pinehurst sees about 283 frost-free days — roughly Feb 21 through Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 14 to Nov 17, about 248 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pinehurst?
The federal record around Pinehurst is a meaningful one — 111 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (83), the nearest Nitrate 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 Pinehurst?
From about Nov 1 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pinehurst's scale — its 8b band and its 283-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pinehurst'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 Pinehurst’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Pinehurst's own scale — the 651 acres it covers and 111 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pinehurst's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 111 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pinehurst, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pinehurst's boundary and the 651 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~283-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pinehurst's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Pinehurst has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Dooly County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pinehurst's 651 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dooly County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dooly 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 Dooly County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pinehurst's 651 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pinehurst you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 651 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Pinehurst-wide figureread your own land →
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