Mountain City, GA 30562 Frost Dates
Mountain City, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mountain City in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Mountain City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mountain City's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mountain City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 191 frost-free days, Mountain City places 20,836 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 908 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30562's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Mountain City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Mountain City's dates instead of trusting one.