Nahunta, GA 31543 Frost Dates
31543, near Nahunta, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
Nahunta 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
Nahunta'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
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Nahunta against the rest of the dataset
About 236 days separate Nahunta's last and first frost, putting it 9,457 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 391 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31543: local microclimates, on what one yard in Nahunta can differ from the 31543 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Nahunta's frost date answer different questions.