Villa Rica, GA 30180 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Villa Rica, GA, ZIP 30180
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 222 frost-free days later.
Villa Rica 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Villa Rica has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Villa Rica compares
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Villa Rica places 12,221 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 706 of 921.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Villa Rica's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Villa Rica can differ from the 30180 normal.