Brookhaven, GA 30326 Frost Dates
30326, near Brookhaven, GA: the frost window
Around 03/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 209 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Brookhaven 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
Brookhaven'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 03/25 isn't a guarantee
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brookhaven against the rest of the dataset
About 228 days separate Brookhaven's last and first frost, putting it 10,705 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 571 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30326: the frost range, on how to read the range around Brookhaven's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Brookhaven can differ from the 30326 normal.