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Nashville, GA 31639 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Nashville, GA, ZIP 31639

Zone 9a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/11, about 195 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/19, about 254 frost-free days later.

Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Nashville, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 9a around Nashville has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

How much risk comes with planting early here

03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Nashville compares

At roughly 254 frost-free days, Nashville places 7,031 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 213 of 921.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Nashville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Nashville can differ from the 31639 normal.