Rocky Ford, GA 30455 Frost Dates
Rocky Ford, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 269 days after the last spring frost.
Rocky Ford sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
With roughly 13 weeks until Rocky Ford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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.
Rocky Ford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 269 frost-free days, Rocky Ford places 5,702 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 87 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30455's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Rocky Ford's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Rocky Ford's dates instead of trusting one.