Leary, GA 39862 Frost Dates
Leary, GA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/11, about 195 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 245 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 Leary, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Leary's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Leary's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leary against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 245 frost-free days, Leary places 8,064 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 337 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39862's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Leary's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Leary can differ from the 39862 normal.