Statesboro, GA 30460 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.
Statesboro sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 13 weeks until Statesboro's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
Statesboro's growing season runs about 269 days, ranking 5,653 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 64 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30460's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Statesboro can differ from the 30460 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Statesboro's frost date answer different questions.