Lake Park, GA 31636 Frost Dates
31636, near Lake Park, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/10, about 194 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 259 days after the last spring frost.
Lake Park 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
Lake Park'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.
The actual range around Lake Park's last frost
03/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Park against the rest of the dataset
Lake Park's growing season runs about 259 days, ranking 6,594 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 147 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31636: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake Park can differ from the 31636 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Lake Park's frost date answer different questions.