Lake City, GA 30294 Frost Dates
Lake City, GA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Lake City 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 11 weeks until Lake City'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
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake City against the rest of the dataset
Lake City's growing season runs about 235 days, ranking 9,609 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 433 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30294's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lake City can differ from the 30294 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Lake City's frost date answer different questions.