Augusta-Richmond County, GA 30919 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Augusta-Richmond County, GA, ZIP 30919
Around 02/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 183 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/04, about 283 frost-free days later.
Augusta-Richmond County sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Augusta-Richmond County has about 14 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Augusta-Richmond County compares
At roughly 283 frost-free days, Augusta-Richmond County places 4,728 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 22 of 921.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Augusta-Richmond County's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Augusta-Richmond County's dates instead of trusting one.