Macon-Bibb County, GA 31202 Frost Dates
31202, near Macon-Bibb County, 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.
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 Macon-Bibb County, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Macon-Bibb County'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.
Macon-Bibb County against the rest of the dataset
About 235 days separate Macon-Bibb County's last and first frost, putting it 9,536 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 398 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31202: the frost range, on how to read the range around Macon-Bibb County's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Macon-Bibb County can differ from the 31202 normal.