Trenton, GA 35979 Frost Dates
35979, near Trenton, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Trenton sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Trenton's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Trenton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Trenton places 15,647 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 877 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35979: local microclimates, on what one yard in Trenton can differ from the 35979 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Trenton's frost date answer different questions.