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Oliver, GA 30449 Frost Dates

30449, near Oliver, GA: the frost window

Zone 9a

Around 03/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 186 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 269 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Oliver in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Oliver's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

How much risk comes with planting early here

03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Oliver against the rest of the dataset

About 269 days separate Oliver's last and first frost, putting it 5,699 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 85 of 921.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 30449: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Oliver's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Oliver's dates instead of trusting one.