Dallas, GA 30157 Frost Dates
30157, near Dallas, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
Dallas 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
Dallas'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
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dallas against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 218 frost-free days, Dallas places 13,230 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 787 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30157: local microclimates, on what one yard in Dallas can differ from the 30157 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Dallas's frost date answer different questions.