Cartersville, GA 30121 Frost Dates
Cartersville, GA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 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 Cartersville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Cartersville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cartersville's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cartersville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Cartersville places 18,633 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 897 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30121's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cartersville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cartersville can differ from the 30121 normal.