Warm Springs, GA 31830 Frost Dates
Warm Springs, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Warm Springs 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Warm Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Warm Springs against the rest of the dataset
Warm Springs's growing season runs about 216 days, ranking 13,890 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 822 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 31830's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Warm Springs can differ from the 31830 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Warm Springs's frost date answer different questions.