Covington, GA 30014 Frost Dates
30014, near Covington, GA: the frost window
Around 03/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 206 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 238 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Covington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Covington's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Covington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 238 frost-free days, Covington places 8,958 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 373 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30014: local microclimates, on what one yard in Covington can differ from the 30014 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Covington's frost date answer different questions.