Lincolnton, GA 30817 Frost Dates
Lincolnton, GA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lincolnton in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Lincolnton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lincolnton's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lincolnton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Lincolnton places 11,224 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 662 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30817's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lincolnton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lincolnton can differ from the 30817 normal.