Warwick, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
A short list that earns its place here — okra, tomato, collard greens, and sweet potato — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Warwick, 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 Warwick lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Warwick — the short answer
Warwick, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 304 days between hard freezes, across 520 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 7
- Worth County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 8
- Worth County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~304
- Worth County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 520 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 Worth County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Warwick's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Warwick's 304-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Warwick
Each reading below is measured for Warwick itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWarwick runs about 304 days between hard freezes (read from Worth County, the closest normal to Warwick) — 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
MeasuredWarwick 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 Warwick is in
Warwick sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Warwick's own centroid rather than borrowed from Worth County.
What Grows in Warwick
Plants matched to Warwick's USDA zones 8b, ordered by how much hardiness margin each has here — the ones with room to spare at both ends of this town's band lead. Each links to its full growing profile.
Is it too late to plant in Warwick?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 8 — 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 Warwick
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Warwick. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 14N001Nitrate · 750 ft
- ODOM GULF SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- HOLTS S SUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- FOODLANDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- FLINT RIVER GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- BLACKSHEAR MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- JR FOOD STORE #280Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 14N004Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- QUICK BUYS #125Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- 14N002Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- CRISP CO POWER COMMISSIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- SALT LICK SAUSAGE COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Warwick'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 Warwick.
Total Sites
57
within ~10 miles of Warwick
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Warwick
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Warwick
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Warwick, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 24 sites within ~10 miles of Warwick. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Warwick
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Warwick
Everything above resolves to Warwick as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 520 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Worth 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 Warwick Average
Warwick Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Warwick
- ●One soil character for all of Warwick
- ●Frost dates read at Warwick's scale: Feb 7 to Dec 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Warwick's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Warwick
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Warwick, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Warwick averages can't show:
We read public map data around Warwick — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Warwick average
How we know this about Warwick
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 Worth 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 Warwick
When does frost risk typically end in Warwick?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Warwick typically lands around Feb 7, 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 Feb 28.
When is the first frost in Warwick?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Warwick typically arrives around Dec 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 24, so the watching starts about Nov 8 — about 304 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Warwick?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Warwick sees about 304 frost-free days — roughly Feb 7 through Dec 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 28 to Nov 24, about 269 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Warwick?
The federal record around Warwick shows 57 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (27), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles 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 Warwick?
From about Nov 8 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Warwick's scale — its 8b band and its 304-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Warwick'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 Warwick’s own scale
4 of the readings below were taken at Warwick's own scale — the 520 acres it covers and 57 documented sites around it; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Warwick's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 57 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Warwick, the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Warwick's boundary and the 520 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- The ecoregion at Warwick's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Warwick has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Worth County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Warwick's 520 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Worth County
- The candidate plant list — Georgia's curated set, filtered to this zone band and re-ordered by how much margin each has herefrom Georgia
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Worth 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 Worth County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Warwick's 520 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Warwick you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 520 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Warwick-wide figureread your own land →
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