Lumpkin, GA 31814 Frost Dates
31814, near Lumpkin, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lumpkin 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
Lumpkin'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 Lumpkin's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lumpkin against the rest of the dataset
About 217 days separate Lumpkin's last and first frost, putting it 13,564 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 805 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31814: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lumpkin can differ from the 31814 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Lumpkin's frost date answer different questions.