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Blue Ridge, GA 30522 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Blue Ridge, GA, ZIP 30522

Zone 7b

Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 212 frost-free days later.

Blue Ridge sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 7b around Blue Ridge has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

How much risk comes with planting early here

04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Blue Ridge compares

At roughly 212 frost-free days, Blue Ridge places 14,629 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 854 of 921.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Blue Ridge's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Blue Ridge's dates instead of trusting one.