Dearing, GA 30808 Frost Dates
30808, near Dearing, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/14, about 198 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 252 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 Dearing, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Dearing's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/14 isn't a guarantee
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dearing against the rest of the dataset
About 252 days separate Dearing's last and first frost, putting it 7,250 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 261 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30808: the frost range, on how to read the range around Dearing's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Dearing can differ from the 30808 normal.