Higgston, GA 30410 Frost Dates
Higgston, GA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/12, about 196 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
Higgston sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 12 weeks until Higgston's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Higgston's last frost
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Higgston against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 251 frost-free days, Higgston places 7,397 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 275 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30410's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Higgston's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Higgston's dates instead of trusting one.