FrostDateCheck

Smyrna, GA 30077 Frost Dates

Smyrna, GA: when does the frost end?

Zone 8a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.

Smyrna 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 10 weeks until Smyrna's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

How much risk comes with planting early here

03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Smyrna against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 231 frost-free days, Smyrna places 10,090 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 497 of 921.

Learn more

Before leaning on 30077's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Smyrna's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Smyrna can differ from the 30077 normal.