Cartersville, GA 30120 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Cartersville, GA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 197 frost-free days later.
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 Cartersville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Cartersville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Cartersville's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cartersville compares
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Cartersville places 18,632 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 896 of 921.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8a and Cartersville's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Cartersville's dates instead of trusting one.