Carrollton, GA 30116 Frost Dates
30116, near Carrollton, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 222 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 Carrollton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Carrollton'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 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.
Carrollton against the rest of the dataset
Carrollton's growing season runs about 222 days, ranking 12,206 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 702 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30116: local microclimates, on what one yard in Carrollton can differ from the 30116 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Carrollton's frost date answer different questions.