Tucker, GA 30084 Frost Dates
30084, near Tucker, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. 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 Tucker, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tucker'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 Tucker'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.
Tucker against the rest of the dataset
Tucker's growing season runs about 228 days, ranking 10,720 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 579 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30084: local microclimates, on what one yard in Tucker can differ from the 30084 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Tucker's frost date answer different questions.