Lawrenceville, GA 30045 Frost Dates
30045, near Lawrenceville, GA: the frost window
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.
Lawrenceville sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lawrenceville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
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 12,967 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 765 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30045: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lawrenceville can differ from the 30045 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Lawrenceville's frost date answer different questions.