Dudley, GA 31022 Frost Dates
31022, near Dudley, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/14, roughly 198 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 247 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 Dudley, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Dudley'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dudley against the rest of the dataset
About 247 days separate Dudley's last and first frost, putting it 7,868 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 321 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31022: the frost range, on how to read the range around Dudley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Dudley can differ from the 31022 normal.