Forest Park, GA 30297 Frost Dates
Forest Park, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/15, roughly 199 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 252 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Forest Park, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Forest Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Forest Park's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Forest Park against the rest of the dataset
Forest Park's growing season runs about 252 days, ranking 7,210 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 249 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30297's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Forest Park's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Forest Park's dates instead of trusting one.