Locust Grove, GA 30248 Frost Dates
30248, near Locust Grove, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 220 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 Locust Grove, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Locust Grove'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.
Why 03/31 isn't a guarantee
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Locust Grove against the rest of the dataset
About 220 days separate Locust Grove's last and first frost, putting it 12,763 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 758 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30248: local microclimates, on what one yard in Locust Grove can differ from the 30248 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Locust Grove's frost date answer different questions.