Waycross, GA 31501 Frost Dates
31501, near Waycross, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/15, about 199 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 246 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Waycross, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Waycross's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
03/15 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 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waycross against the rest of the dataset
About 246 days separate Waycross's last and first frost, putting it 7,919 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 327 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31501: the frost range, on how to read the range around Waycross's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Waycross can differ from the 31501 normal.