FrostDateCheck

Adrian, GA 30447 Frost Dates

Adrian, GA: when does the frost end?

Zone 8b

Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 247 days after the last spring frost.

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 Adrian, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 11 weeks until Adrian's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Adrian's last frost

03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Adrian against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 247 frost-free days, Adrian places 7,869 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 322 of 921.

Learn more

Before leaning on 30447's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Adrian's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Adrian can differ from the 30447 normal.