Walthourville, GA 31301 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Walthourville, GA, ZIP 31301
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/05, roughly 189 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/29, about 269 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Walthourville in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Walthourville has about 13 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Walthourville compares
At roughly 269 frost-free days, Walthourville places 5,672 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 69 of 921.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Walthourville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Walthourville can differ from the 31301 normal.