North High Shoals, GA 30621 Frost Dates
30621, near North High Shoals, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts North High Shoals in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
North High Shoals'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/24 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 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North High Shoals against the rest of the dataset
North High Shoals's growing season runs about 234 days, ranking 9,794 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 444 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30621: the frost range, on how to read the range around North High Shoals's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in North High Shoals can differ from the 30621 normal.