LaGrange, GA 30261 Frost Dates
LaGrange, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts LaGrange in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until LaGrange's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around LaGrange's last frost
03/31 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 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
LaGrange against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 221 frost-free days, LaGrange places 12,450 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 731 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30261's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in LaGrange can differ from the 30261 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and LaGrange's frost date answer different questions.