Uvalda, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Uvalda, 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 Uvalda lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Uvalda — the short answer
Uvalda, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 290 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 17
- Montgomery County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 4
- Montgomery County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~290
- Montgomery County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 1K 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 Montgomery County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Uvalda's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Uvalda's 290-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Uvalda
Each reading below is measured for Uvalda itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsUvalda runs about 290 days between hard freezes (read from Montgomery County, the closest normal to Uvalda) — 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
MeasuredUvalda 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 Uvalda is in
Uvalda sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Uvalda's own centroid rather than borrowed from Montgomery County.
What Grows in Uvalda
Every plant below cleared Uvalda's own zone 8b and its 290-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Uvalda?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 17 (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. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Uvalda
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Uvalda. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CITY OF UVALDAUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- GA DOT 10546 MONTGOMERY CO AREAUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- SANT LLC UVALDA FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- ALTAMAHA RESTAURANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- LADSONSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- MCNATT FALLS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- 25Q002Nitrate · 1800 ft
- GA DOT 10530 MONTGOMERY ROUTINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- 25Q001Nitrate · 2100 ft
- MOSES GRASS COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- UVALDA LEARNING CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- BURNETTES COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Uvalda'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 Uvalda.
Total Sites
44
within ~10 miles of Uvalda
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Uvalda
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Uvalda
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Uvalda, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 32 sites within ~10 miles of Uvalda. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Uvalda
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 Uvalda average
Your land is one point inside Uvalda
Everything above resolves to Uvalda as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Montgomery 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 Uvalda Average
Uvalda Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Uvalda
- ●One soil character for all of Uvalda
- ●Frost dates read at Uvalda's scale: Feb 17 to Dec 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Uvalda's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Uvalda
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Uvalda, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Uvalda averages can't show:
We read public map data around Uvalda — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Uvalda average
How we know this about Uvalda
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 Montgomery 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 Uvalda
When does frost risk typically end in Uvalda?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Uvalda typically lands around Feb 17, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Uvalda?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Uvalda 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 290 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Uvalda?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Uvalda sees about 290 frost-free days — roughly Feb 17 through Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 10 to Nov 20, about 255 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Uvalda?
The federal record around Uvalda is light — 44 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (32), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Uvalda?
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 Uvalda's scale — its 8b band and its 290-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Uvalda'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 Uvalda’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Uvalda's own scale — the 1,212 acres it covers and 44 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Uvalda's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 44 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Uvalda, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Uvalda's boundary and the 1,212 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~290-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Uvalda's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Uvalda has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Montgomery County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Uvalda's 1,212 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Montgomery County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Montgomery 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 Montgomery County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Uvalda's 1,212 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Uvalda you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,212 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 Uvalda-wide figureread your own land →
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