Arabi, GA 31712 Frost Dates
31712, near Arabi, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 248 days after the last spring frost.
Arabi 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
Arabi's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 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.
Arabi against the rest of the dataset
About 248 days separate Arabi's last and first frost, putting it 7,731 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 306 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31712: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Arabi's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Arabi's dates instead of trusting one.