Baxley, GA 31515 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Baxley, GA, ZIP 31515
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/17, roughly 201 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/16, about 245 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Baxley 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 Baxley has about 11 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
03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Baxley compares
At roughly 245 frost-free days, Baxley places 8,017 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 333 of 921.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Baxley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Baxley's dates instead of trusting one.