Lakeland, GA 31641 Frost Dates
31641, near Lakeland, GA: the frost window
Around 03/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 189 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 267 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lakeland 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
Lakeland's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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 Lakeland's last frost
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lakeland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 267 frost-free days, Lakeland places 5,859 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 115 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31641: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lakeland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lakeland can differ from the 31641 normal.