Baldwin, GA 30511 Frost Dates
30511, near Baldwin, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Baldwin, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Baldwin's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Baldwin against the rest of the dataset
About 216 days separate Baldwin's last and first frost, putting it 13,780 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 813 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30511: local microclimates, on what one yard in Baldwin can differ from the 30511 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Baldwin's frost date answer different questions.