Augusta-Richmond County, GA 30916 Frost Dates
30916, near Augusta-Richmond County, GA: the frost window
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
Augusta-Richmond County's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 02/27 isn't a guarantee
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
About 283 days separate Augusta-Richmond County's last and first frost, putting it 4,727 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 21 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30916: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Augusta-Richmond County's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Augusta-Richmond County's dates instead of trusting one.