Fayetteville, GA 30215 Frost Dates
30215, near Fayetteville, GA: the frost window
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 226 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 Fayetteville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fayetteville'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 Fayetteville's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fayetteville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Fayetteville places 11,162 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 656 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30215: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fayetteville can differ from the 30215 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Fayetteville's frost date answer different questions.