Alston, GA 30412 Frost Dates
30412, near Alston, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/12, about 196 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
Alston sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Alston's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Alston's last frost
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Alston against the rest of the dataset
About 251 days separate Alston's last and first frost, putting it 7,408 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 276 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30412: local microclimates, on what one yard in Alston can differ from the 30412 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Alston's frost date answer different questions.