Greensboro, GA 30642 Frost Dates
Greensboro, GA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Greensboro in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Greensboro's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Greensboro's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Greensboro against the rest of the dataset
Greensboro's growing season runs about 234 days, ranking 9,741 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 439 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30642's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Greensboro's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Greensboro can differ from the 30642 normal.