Pitts, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Pitts, 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 Pitts 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 Pitts — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Pitts — the short answer
Pitts, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 294 days between hard freezes, across 513 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 14
- Wilcox County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 5
- Wilcox County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~294
- Wilcox County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 513 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 Wilcox County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Pitts's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pitts's 294-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pitts
Each reading below is measured for Pitts itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsPitts runs about 294 days between hard freezes (read from Wilcox County, the closest normal to Pitts) — 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
MeasuredPitts 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 Pitts is in
Pitts sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pitts's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wilcox County.
What Grows in Pitts
Every plant below cleared Pitts's own zone 8b and its 294-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pitts?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Pitts
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pitts. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CONNERS IND GAS & GROUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- BULLDOG CONVT STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- BUDDY DOMINEYUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- MARVIN NOBLESUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- 17P001Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- REX BULLOCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- GLENN ROUNTREEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- ALLTELUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- PITTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- 17P005Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- CONTAINER CORP OF AMERICAUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- MARTIN RESOURCES, INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pitts'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 Pitts.
Total Sites
47
within ~10 miles of Pitts
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pitts
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pitts
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pitts, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 32 sites within ~10 miles of Pitts. 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 Pitts
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 Pitts average
Your land is one point inside Pitts
Everything above resolves to Pitts as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 513 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Wilcox 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 Pitts Average
Pitts Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Pitts
- ●One soil character for all of Pitts
- ●Frost dates read at Pitts's scale: Feb 14 to Dec 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pitts's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pitts
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pitts, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pitts averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pitts — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pitts average
How we know this about Pitts
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 Wilcox 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 Pitts
When does frost risk typically end in Pitts?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pitts typically lands around Feb 14, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Pitts?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pitts typically arrives around Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 21, so the watching starts about Nov 5 — about 294 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pitts?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pitts sees about 294 frost-free days — roughly Feb 14 through Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 7 to Nov 21, about 259 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pitts?
The federal record around Pitts is light — 47 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (32), 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 Pitts?
From about Nov 5 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pitts's scale — its 8b band and its 294-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pitts'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 Pitts’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Pitts's own scale — the 513 acres it covers and 47 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pitts's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 47 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pitts, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pitts's boundary and the 513 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~294-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pitts's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Pitts has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Wilcox County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pitts's 513 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wilcox County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wilcox 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 Wilcox County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pitts's 513 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pitts you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 513 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 Pitts-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across GeorgiaPitts sits outside our named growing regions, so Georgia as a whole is its closest context here.