Ellenton, GA 31747 Frost Dates
31747, near Ellenton, GA: the frost window
Around 03/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 190 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 268 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 Ellenton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ellenton'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ellenton against the rest of the dataset
Ellenton's growing season runs about 268 days, ranking 5,824 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 107 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31747: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ellenton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ellenton can differ from the 31747 normal.