Sky Valley, GA 30537 Frost Dates
Sky Valley, GA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
Sky Valley 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Sky Valley's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sky Valley's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sky Valley against the rest of the dataset
Sky Valley's growing season runs about 191 days, ranking 20,893 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 909 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30537's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sky Valley can differ from the 30537 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Sky Valley's frost date answer different questions.