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Fairmount, GA 30734 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Fairmount, GA, ZIP 30734

Zone 8a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 221 frost-free days later.

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 Fairmount, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 8a around Fairmount has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

Why 03/31 isn't a guarantee

03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Fairmount compares

At roughly 221 frost-free days, Fairmount places 12,553 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 746 of 921.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Fairmount's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Fairmount's dates instead of trusting one.