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Crawford, GA 30630 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Crawford, GA, ZIP 30630

Zone 8a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/06, about 221 frost-free days later.

Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Crawford, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 8a around Crawford has about 10 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.

The actual range around Crawford's last frost

03/31 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. 04/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Crawford compares

At roughly 221 frost-free days, Crawford places 12,548 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 742 of 921.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Crawford's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Crawford's dates instead of trusting one.