George, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in George, 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 George lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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George — the short answer
George, Washington: USDA zone 7a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 882 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 882 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 7a is George's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against George's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in George
Each reading below is measured for George itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGeorge runs about 208 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
MeasuredGeorge sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 George is in
George sits in the Columbia Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at George's own centroid rather than borrowed from Grant County.
What Grows in George
Every plant below cleared George's own zone 7a and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in George?
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 Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — 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 George
Closest first, within ~10 miles of George. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GEORGE TRUCK STOP AND SUBWAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- BEER, WINE AND MORE OF GEORGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- GEORGE ELEMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- 18N/24E-06H01Nitrate · 1100 ft
- GEORGE WATERMASTER CAMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- R TRANSPORT INCBrownfields · 1500 ft
- KISSLER ENTERPRISES ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTS INCBrownfields · 1600 ft
- GEORGE SCALESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- GEORGE CENTRAL OFFICE 4030-B01Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- WA DOT GEORGE MAINTENANCE SITEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- ROBERT WEIR FIELDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- WITCO CORP MINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from George'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 George.
Total Sites
103
within ~10 miles of George
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of George
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of George
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around George, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 48 sites within ~10 miles of George. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 George
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 George
Everything above resolves to George as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 882 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 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 George Average
George Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across George
- ●One soil character for all of George
- ●Frost dates read at George's scale: Apr 3 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not George's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in George
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in George, Washington — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around George — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about George
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 George’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 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 George
When does frost risk typically end in George?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in George typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in George?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in George typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in George?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, George sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 14, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in George?
The federal record around George is a meaningful one — 103 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (48), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in George?
From about Sep 28 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 Oct 28 (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 Oct 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at George's scale — its 7a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of George'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 George’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at George's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 882 acres it covers and 103 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- George's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- George's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Oct 28 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 103 documented contamination sites on the federal record near George, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- George's boundary and the 882 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at George's own centroid, the Columbia PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so George's 882 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Grant County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Grant County
- The growing challenges every Washington grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Washington
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Grant County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among George's 882 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of George you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 882 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 George-wide figureread your own land →
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