Echols County, GA 31648 Frost Dates
Echols County, GA: when does the frost end?
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.
Echols County 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Echols County's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Echols County'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.
Echols County against the rest of the dataset
Echols County's growing season runs about 259 days, ranking 6,585 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 145 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 31648's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Echols County can differ from the 31648 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Echols County's frost date answer different questions.