Lumpkin, GA 31821 Frost Dates
31821, near Lumpkin, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/21, about 205 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Lumpkin, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lumpkin's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lumpkin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 239 frost-free days, Lumpkin places 8,854 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 361 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31821: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Lumpkin's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lumpkin's dates instead of trusting one.