Cumming, GA 30040 Frost Dates
Cumming, GA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 211 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Cumming sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Cumming's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cumming's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 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.
Cumming against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Cumming's last and first frost, putting it 10,168 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 550 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30040's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cumming can differ from the 30040 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Cumming's frost date answer different questions.