Pendergrass, GA 30567 Frost Dates
30567, near Pendergrass, 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.
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 Pendergrass, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pendergrass'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.
Pendergrass against the rest of the dataset
Pendergrass's growing season runs about 239 days, ranking 8,840 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 359 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30567: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Pendergrass's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pendergrass's dates instead of trusting one.