Whitesburg, GA 30185 Frost Dates
Whitesburg, 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 11/02, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
Whitesburg 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Whitesburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Whitesburg against the rest of the dataset
About 214 days separate Whitesburg's last and first frost, putting it 14,334 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 851 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30185's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Whitesburg can differ from the 30185 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Whitesburg's frost date answer different questions.