Centerville, GA 31099 Frost Dates
31099, near Centerville, 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 11/10, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Centerville 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
Centerville'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
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 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.
Centerville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 235 frost-free days, Centerville places 9,583 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 422 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31099: local microclimates, on what one yard in Centerville can differ from the 31099 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Centerville's frost date answer different questions.