Lakeland, GA 31649 Frost Dates
31649, near Lakeland, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 253 days after the last spring frost.
Lakeland 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
Lakeland'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 Lakeland's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lakeland against the rest of the dataset
Lakeland's growing season runs about 253 days, ranking 7,150 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 228 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31649: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lakeland can differ from the 31649 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Lakeland's frost date answer different questions.