Pine Lake, GA 30088 Frost Dates
Pine Lake, GA: when does the frost end?
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 Pine Lake, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Pine Lake'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
03/25 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.
Pine Lake against the rest of the dataset
Pine Lake's growing season runs about 228 days, ranking 10,885 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 640 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30088's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pine Lake's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pine Lake can differ from the 30088 normal.