North High Shoals, GA 30645 Frost Dates
North High Shoals, GA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/27, about 211 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 228 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
With roughly 10 weeks until North High Shoals's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around North High Shoals's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 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
About 228 days separate North High Shoals's last and first frost, putting it 10,896 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 641 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30645's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and North High Shoals's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around North High Shoals's dates instead of trusting one.