Fargo, GA 31631 Frost Dates
31631, near Fargo, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/24, about 180 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/07, roughly 287 days after the last spring frost.
Fargo 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
Fargo's growing season runs out in roughly 14 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 Fargo's last frost
02/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fargo against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 287 frost-free days, Fargo places 4,608 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 16 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31631: the frost range, on how to read the range around Fargo's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Fargo can differ from the 31631 normal.