Lumpkin, GA 31815 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Lumpkin, GA?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/04, about 217 frost-free days later.
Lumpkin sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Lumpkin before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Lumpkin's last frost
04/01 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. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lumpkin compares
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Lumpkin places 13,565 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 806 of 921.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Lumpkin's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Lumpkin can differ from the 31815 normal.