Franklin Springs, GA 30662 Frost Dates
30662, near Franklin Springs, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 209 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 Franklin Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Franklin Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/06 isn't a guarantee
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Franklin Springs against the rest of the dataset
Franklin Springs's growing season runs about 209 days, ranking 15,318 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 872 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30662: local microclimates, on what one yard in Franklin Springs can differ from the 30662 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Franklin Springs's frost date answer different questions.