Talmo, GA 30502 Frost Dates
30502, near Talmo, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/20, about 204 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
Talmo 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
Talmo's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/20 isn't a guarantee
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Talmo against the rest of the dataset
About 239 days separate Talmo's last and first frost, putting it 8,888 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 367 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30502: the frost range, on how to read the range around Talmo's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Talmo can differ from the 30502 normal.