Surrency, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Surrency, 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 Surrency 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 Surrency — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Surrency — the short answer
Surrency, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 289 days between hard freezes, across 495 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 18
- Appling County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 4
- Appling County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~289
- Appling County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 495 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 Appling County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Surrency's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Surrency's 289-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Surrency
Each reading below is measured for Surrency itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsSurrency runs about 289 days between hard freezes (read from Appling County, the closest normal to Surrency) — 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
MeasuredSurrency 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 Surrency is in
Surrency sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Surrency's own centroid rather than borrowed from Appling County.
What Grows in Surrency
Every plant below cleared Surrency's own zone 8b and its 289-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Surrency?
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 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 4 — 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 Surrency
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Surrency. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 28M004Nitrate · 300 ft
- 28M005Nitrate · 400 ft
- PARKERS SURRENCYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- ADENS MINIT MARKET #31Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- 28M007Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- FLOWERS SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- FMR WAYNE STATE PRISONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- FRIES FARMS LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- UNION CAMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- APPLING CO SCHOOL BUS SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
- HUNGRY LIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
- APPLING COUNTY/4TH DIST SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Surrency'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 Surrency.
Total Sites
88
within ~10 miles of Surrency
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
7 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Surrency
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Surrency
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Surrency, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Surrency — Toxics Release Inventory (7 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (59 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Surrency
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 Surrency average
Your land is one point inside Surrency
Everything above resolves to Surrency as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 495 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Appling 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 Surrency Average
Surrency Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Surrency
- ●One soil character for all of Surrency
- ●Frost dates read at Surrency's scale: Feb 18 to Dec 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Surrency's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Surrency
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Surrency, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Surrency averages can't show:
We read public map data around Surrency — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Surrency average
How we know this about Surrency
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 Appling 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 Surrency
When does frost risk typically end in Surrency?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Surrency typically lands around Feb 18, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Surrency?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Surrency typically arrives around Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 20, so the watching starts about Nov 4 — about 289 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Surrency?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Surrency sees about 289 frost-free days — roughly Feb 18 through Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 11 to Nov 20, about 254 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Surrency?
The federal record around Surrency shows 88 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (59), the nearest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Surrency?
From about Nov 4 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Surrency's scale — its 8b band and its 289-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Surrency'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 Surrency’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Surrency's own scale — the 495 acres it covers and 88 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Surrency's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 88 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Surrency, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Surrency's boundary and the 495 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~289-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Surrency's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Surrency has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Appling County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Surrency's 495 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Appling County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Appling 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 Appling County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Surrency's 495 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Surrency you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 495 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 Surrency-wide figureread your own land →
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