Whitesburg, GA 30275 Frost Dates
30275, near Whitesburg, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 214 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 Whitesburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Whitesburg's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 03/16 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 14,335 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 852 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30275: the frost range, on how to read the range around Whitesburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Whitesburg can differ from the 30275 normal.