Dawsonville, GA 30148 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Dawsonville, GA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 221 frost-free days later.
Dawsonville 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 Dawsonville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Dawsonville's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Dawsonville compares
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Dawsonville places 12,503 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 733 of 921.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8a and Dawsonville's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Dawsonville's dates instead of trusting one.