Lawrenceville, GA 30048 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Lawrenceville, GA?
Around 03/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 209 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 228 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Lawrenceville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Lawrenceville's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lawrenceville compares
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Lawrenceville places 10,732 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 591 of 921.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8a and Lawrenceville's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Lawrenceville's dates instead of trusting one.