Lula, GA 30554 Frost Dates
30554, near Lula, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Lula 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
Lula'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.
The actual range around Lula's last frost
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.
Lula against the rest of the dataset
About 216 days separate Lula's last and first frost, putting it 13,792 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 815 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30554: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lula can differ from the 30554 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Lula's frost date answer different questions.