Lawrenceville, GA 30043 Frost Dates
Lawrenceville, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/03, roughly 218 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lawrenceville in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
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.
The actual range around Lawrenceville's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lawrenceville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 219 frost-free days, Lawrenceville places 12,966 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 764 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30043's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lawrenceville can differ from the 30043 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Lawrenceville's frost date answer different questions.