Tiger, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Tiger, 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 Tiger 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 Tiger — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Tiger — the short answer
Tiger, Georgia: USDA zone 7b, about 228 days between hard freezes, across 530 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~228
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 530 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7b is Tiger's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tiger's 228-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tiger
Each reading below is measured for Tiger itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTiger runs about 228 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredTiger sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Tiger is in
Tiger sits in the Blue Ridge — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Tiger's own centroid rather than borrowed from Rabun County.
What Grows in Tiger
Every plant below cleared Tiger's own zone 7b and its 228-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tiger?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Tiger
Survey cells within 31 miles of Tiger checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 38 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Tiger
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tiger. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TIGER FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- RAMEYS SERVICE CENTER & FOOD MARUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- WILEY JUNCTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- RABUN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- RABUN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- RABUN COUNTY RD DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- HOME DEPOT STORE #8412Brownfields · 1.6 mi
- WALMART SUPERCENTER #2753Brownfields · 1.7 mi
- STEKOA CREEK WATER RECLAMATION FACILITYBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- CHURCH OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- LOVELLS GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- RABUN COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tiger'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 Tiger.
Total Sites
98
within ~10 miles of Tiger
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tiger
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tiger
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tiger, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 78 sites within ~10 miles of Tiger. 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 Tiger
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 Tiger average
Your land is one point inside Tiger
Everything above resolves to Tiger as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 530 acres. 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 Tiger Average
Tiger Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Tiger
- ●One soil character for all of Tiger
- ●Frost dates read at Tiger's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tiger's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tiger
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tiger, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tiger averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tiger — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tiger average
How we know this about Tiger
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 Tiger’s own record; 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 Tiger
When does frost risk typically end in Tiger?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tiger typically lands around Mar 27, 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 Apr 17.
When is the first frost in Tiger?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tiger typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 228 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tiger?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tiger sees about 228 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 27, about 193 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tiger?
The federal record around Tiger shows 98 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (78), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Tiger?
From about Oct 11 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 Nov 10 (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 Nov 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tiger's scale — its 7b band and its 228-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tiger'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 Tiger’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Tiger's own scale — its own ~228-day season between 28°F freezes, the 530 acres it covers and 98 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tiger's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tiger's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 10 and the ~228-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 98 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tiger, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tiger's boundary and the 530 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~228-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tiger's own centroid, the Blue RidgeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Tiger checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tiger's 530 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Rabun County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Rabun 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 Rabun County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tiger's 530 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tiger you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 530 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Tiger-wide figureread your own land →