Bishop, GA 30638 Frost Dates
30638, near Bishop, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/24, roughly 208 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
Bishop 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
Bishop'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.
The actual range around Bishop's last frost
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.
Bishop against the rest of the dataset
Bishop's growing season runs about 234 days, ranking 9,809 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 446 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30638: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bishop's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bishop can differ from the 30638 normal.