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Clermont, GA 30527 Frost Dates

30527, near Clermont, GA: the frost window

Zone 8a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/14, roughly 229 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.

Clermont sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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

Clermont's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

The actual range around Clermont's last frost

04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Clermont against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 192 frost-free days, Clermont places 20,458 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 906 of 921.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 30527: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Clermont's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Clermont's dates instead of trusting one.