Woodland, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Woodland, 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 Woodland 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 Woodland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Woodland — the short answer
Woodland, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 268 days between hard freezes, across 502 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 2
- Talbot County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- Talbot County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~268
- Talbot County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 502 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 Talbot County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Woodland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodland's 268-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodland
Each reading below is measured for Woodland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWoodland runs about 268 days between hard freezes (read from Talbot County, the closest normal to Woodland) — 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
MeasuredWoodland 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 Woodland is in
Woodland sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Talbot County.
What Grows in Woodland
Every plant below cleared Woodland's own zone 8b and its 268-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodland?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Woodland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- W EUGENE HUDDLESTONS GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- HUDDLESTONS GARAGE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- RUSSELL PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- 09W001Nitrate · 500 ft
- DOT 10381/WOODLAND MAINT HQUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- GEO FOOD MART #66Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- TALBOT COUNTY WATER WORKSPFAS · 1.6 mi
- BISHOPS CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- DOT PARCEL #9Underground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- MAGIC HILL DISCOUNT GROCERY/HUFFUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- GOODY PRODUCTS/MILLIKEN PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- MANCHESTER PUBLIC WORKS DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodland'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 Woodland.
Total Sites
80
within ~10 miles of Woodland
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodland, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 64 sites within ~10 miles of Woodland. 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 Woodland
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 Woodland average
Your land is one point inside Woodland
Everything above resolves to Woodland as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 502 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Talbot 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 Woodland Average
Woodland Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Woodland
- ●One soil character for all of Woodland
- ●Frost dates read at Woodland's scale: Mar 2 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodland's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodland, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodland average
How we know this about Woodland
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 Talbot 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 Woodland
When does frost risk typically end in Woodland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodland typically lands around Mar 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Woodland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodland typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 268 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodland sees about 268 frost-free days — roughly Mar 2 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 23 to Nov 11, about 233 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodland?
The federal record around Woodland shows 80 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (64), 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 Woodland?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodland's scale — its 8b band and its 268-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodland'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 Woodland’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Woodland's own scale — the 502 acres it covers and 80 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 80 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodland, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodland's boundary and the 502 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~268-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodland's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Woodland has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Talbot County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodland's 502 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Talbot County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Talbot 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 Talbot County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodland's 502 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 502 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 Woodland-wide figureread your own land →
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