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Blairsville, GA 30514 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Blairsville, GA?

Zone 7a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 176 frost-free days later.

Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Blairsville, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

About 7 weeks of growing season left in Blairsville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Blairsville's last frost

04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/08 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Blairsville compares

About 176 days separate Blairsville's last and first frost, putting it 26,562 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 918 of 921.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Blairsville's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Blairsville can differ from the 30514 normal.