De Soto, GA 31743 Frost Dates
31743, near De Soto, GA: the frost window
Around 03/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 196 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 253 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 De Soto, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
De Soto'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 De Soto's last frost
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
De Soto against the rest of the dataset
About 253 days separate De Soto's last and first frost, putting it 7,194 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 243 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31743: the frost range, on how to read the range around De Soto's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in De Soto can differ from the 31743 normal.