White Plains, GA 30678 Frost Dates
30678, near White Plains, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 White Plains, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
White Plains's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 White Plains's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
White Plains against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 225 frost-free days, White Plains places 11,477 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 696 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30678: local microclimates, on what one yard in White Plains can differ from the 30678 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and White Plains's frost date answer different questions.