Woodbury, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Woodbury, 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 Woodbury 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 Woodbury — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Woodbury — the short answer
Woodbury, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 252 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 15
- Meriwether County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- Meriwether County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~252
- Meriwether 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 Meriwether County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Woodbury's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodbury's 252-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodbury
Each reading below is measured for Woodbury itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWoodbury runs about 252 days between hard freezes (read from Meriwether County, the closest normal to Woodbury) — 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
MeasuredWoodbury 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 Woodbury is in
Woodbury sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodbury's own centroid rather than borrowed from Meriwether County.
What Grows in Woodbury
Every plant below cleared Woodbury's own zone 8b and its 252-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodbury?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 22 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Woodbury
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodbury. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WOODBURY BOX CO INCToxics Release Inventory · 650 ft
- WOODBURY BOX CO INCBrownfields · 650 ft
- FOUR POINTS BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- WOODBURY BUSINESS FORMS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- HIWASSEE LAND CO WOODYARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- WOODBURY HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- WOODBURY FERTILIZER CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CITY OF WOODBURYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- NABISCO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- DALESMOOR PLANTATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- PRAXIS COMPANIES, LLCToxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
- SPECIALTY BRANDS DIV BURNS PHILPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodbury'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 Woodbury.
Total Sites
140
within ~10 miles of Woodbury
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
8 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodbury
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodbury
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodbury, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 109 sites within ~10 miles of Woodbury. 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 Woodbury
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 Woodbury average
Your land is one point inside Woodbury
Everything above resolves to Woodbury as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Meriwether 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 Woodbury Average
Woodbury Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Woodbury
- ●One soil character for all of Woodbury
- ●Frost dates read at Woodbury's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodbury's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodbury
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodbury, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodbury averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodbury — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodbury average
How we know this about Woodbury
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 Meriwether 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 Woodbury
When does frost risk typically end in Woodbury?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodbury typically lands around Mar 15, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Woodbury?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodbury typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 252 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodbury?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodbury sees about 252 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Nov 8, about 217 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodbury?
The federal record around Woodbury shows 140 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (109), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory 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 Woodbury?
From about Oct 23 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodbury's scale — its 8b band and its 252-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodbury'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 Woodbury’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Woodbury's own scale — the 1,324 acres it covers and 140 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodbury's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 140 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodbury, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodbury's boundary and the 1,324 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~252-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodbury's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Woodbury has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Meriwether County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodbury's 1,324 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Meriwether County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Meriwether 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 Meriwether County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodbury's 1,324 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodbury you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,324 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory 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 Woodbury-wide figureread your own land →
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