Screven, GA 31560 Frost Dates
31560, near Screven, GA: the frost window
Around 03/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 208 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
Screven 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
Screven'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.
The actual range around Screven's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Screven against the rest of the dataset
About 233 days separate Screven's last and first frost, putting it 9,946 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 462 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31560: the frost range, on how to read the range around Screven's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Screven can differ from the 31560 normal.