Bartow, GA 30413 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Bartow, GA?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/07, about 227 frost-free days later.
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 Bartow, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Bartow before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Bartow's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bartow compares
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Bartow places 11,071 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 650 of 921.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8b and Bartow's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Bartow's dates instead of trusting one.