Ringgold, GA 30736 Frost Dates
Ringgold, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 205 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 Ringgold, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Ringgold's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ringgold's last frost
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 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ringgold against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Ringgold places 16,291 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 880 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30736's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Ringgold's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Ringgold can differ from the 30736 normal.