Jesup, GA 31598 Frost Dates
31598, near Jesup, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Jesup in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Jesup'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 Jesup'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.
Jesup against the rest of the dataset
Jesup's growing season runs about 233 days, ranking 9,870 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 451 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31598: local microclimates, on what one yard in Jesup can differ from the 31598 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Jesup's frost date answer different questions.