Augusta-Richmond County, GA 30914 Frost Dates
Augusta-Richmond County, GA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/27, about 183 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/04, roughly 283 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 Augusta-Richmond County, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 14 weeks until Augusta-Richmond County's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Augusta-Richmond County's last frost
02/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Augusta-Richmond County against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 283 frost-free days, Augusta-Richmond County places 4,726 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 20 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30914's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Augusta-Richmond County can differ from the 30914 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Augusta-Richmond County's frost date answer different questions.