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Centerville, GA 31099 Frost Dates

31099, near Centerville, GA: the frost window

Zone 8b

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.