Bowersville, GA 30516 Frost Dates
30516, near Bowersville, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 209 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 Bowersville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bowersville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/06 isn't a guarantee
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bowersville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Bowersville places 15,389 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 876 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30516: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Bowersville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bowersville's dates instead of trusting one.