Statesboro, GA 30459 Frost Dates
Statesboro, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 269 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 Statesboro, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Statesboro's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/02 isn't a guarantee
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Statesboro against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 269 frost-free days, Statesboro places 5,652 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 63 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30459's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Statesboro's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Statesboro can differ from the 30459 normal.