Lumber City, GA 31549 Frost Dates
31549, near Lumber City, GA: the frost window
Around 03/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 196 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lumber City in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lumber City'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
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lumber City against the rest of the dataset
About 251 days separate Lumber City's last and first frost, putting it 7,372 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 272 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31549: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Lumber City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lumber City's dates instead of trusting one.