Villa Rica, GA 30187 Frost Dates
Villa Rica, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Villa Rica's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Villa Rica against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Villa Rica places 12,222 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 707 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30187's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Villa Rica's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Villa Rica's dates instead of trusting one.