Valdosta, GA 31698 Frost Dates
31698, near Valdosta, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/05, roughly 189 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 267 days after the last spring frost.
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 Valdosta, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Valdosta'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.
Why 03/05 isn't a guarantee
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.
Valdosta against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 267 frost-free days, Valdosta places 5,831 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 111 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31698: local microclimates, on what one yard in Valdosta can differ from the 31698 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Valdosta's frost date answer different questions.