Surrency, GA 31563 Frost Dates
Surrency, GA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 201 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Surrency 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Surrency's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Surrency's last frost
03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Surrency against the rest of the dataset
About 245 days separate Surrency's last and first frost, putting it 8,076 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 341 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 31563's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Surrency can differ from the 31563 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Surrency's frost date answer different questions.