Taylorsville, GA 30178 Frost Dates
Taylorsville, GA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Taylorsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Taylorsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Taylorsville's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Taylorsville against the rest of the dataset
Taylorsville's growing season runs about 211 days, ranking 14,886 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 869 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30178's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Taylorsville can differ from the 30178 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Taylorsville's frost date answer different questions.