Fairmount, GA 30139 Frost Dates
30139, near Fairmount, GA: the frost window
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
Fairmount sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fairmount'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 Fairmount's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fairmount against the rest of the dataset
Fairmount's growing season runs about 221 days, ranking 12,551 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 744 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30139: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Fairmount's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fairmount's dates instead of trusting one.