Waycross, GA 31503 Frost Dates
Waycross, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/15, roughly 199 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 246 days after the last spring frost.
Waycross sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
With roughly 12 weeks until Waycross's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Waycross's last frost
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
At roughly 246 frost-free days, Waycross places 7,921 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 329 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 31503's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Waycross's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Waycross can differ from the 31503 normal.