Avondale Estates, GA 30035 Frost Dates
30035, near Avondale Estates, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/25, roughly 209 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Avondale Estates, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Avondale Estates's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Avondale Estates's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Avondale Estates against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Avondale Estates places 10,815 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 634 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30035: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Avondale Estates's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Avondale Estates's dates instead of trusting one.