Chickamauga, GA 30739 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Chickamauga, GA, ZIP 30739
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 232 frost-free days later.
Chickamauga sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Chickamauga 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Chickamauga compares
At roughly 232 frost-free days, Chickamauga places 10,050 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 481 of 921.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Chickamauga's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Chickamauga's dates instead of trusting one.