Abbeville, GA 31001 Frost Dates
31001, near Abbeville, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 268 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Abbeville in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Abbeville's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Abbeville's last frost
03/02 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 03/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Abbeville against the rest of the dataset
Abbeville's growing season runs about 268 days, ranking 5,774 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 98 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31001: local microclimates, on what one yard in Abbeville can differ from the 31001 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Abbeville's frost date answer different questions.