Avera, GA 30803 Frost Dates
Avera, GA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 209 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Avera, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Avera's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Avera's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Avera against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Avera places 11,067 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 649 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30803's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Avera's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Avera's dates instead of trusting one.