Flowery Branch, GA 30542 Frost Dates
30542, near Flowery Branch, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/20, roughly 204 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
Flowery Branch 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
Flowery Branch'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.
Flowery Branch against the rest of the dataset
Flowery Branch's growing season runs about 239 days, ranking 8,797 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 354 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30542: the frost range, on how to read the range around Flowery Branch's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Flowery Branch can differ from the 30542 normal.