Lawrenceville, GA 30003 Frost Dates
Lawrenceville, GA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Lawrenceville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Lawrenceville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lawrenceville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Lawrenceville places 10,728 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 587 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30003's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lawrenceville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lawrenceville can differ from the 30003 normal.