Louisville, GA 30434 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Louisville, GA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/25, roughly 209 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/07, about 227 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Louisville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Louisville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Louisville's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Louisville compares
About 227 days separate Louisville's last and first frost, putting it 11,020 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 645 of 921.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8b and Louisville's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Louisville's dates instead of trusting one.