FrostDateCheck

Roberta, GA 31066 Frost Dates

Roberta, GA: when does the frost end?

Zone 8b

Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.

Roberta 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.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 11 weeks until Roberta's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Roberta's last frost

03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Roberta against the rest of the dataset

About 234 days separate Roberta's last and first frost, putting it 9,786 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 442 of 921.

Learn more

Before leaning on 31066's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Roberta's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Roberta can differ from the 31066 normal.