Wrightsville, GA 31096 Frost Dates
Wrightsville, GA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 247 days after the last spring frost.
Wrightsville 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Wrightsville'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
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.
Wrightsville against the rest of the dataset
Wrightsville's growing season runs about 247 days, ranking 7,831 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 315 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 31096's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Wrightsville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wrightsville's dates instead of trusting one.