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Ocilla, GA 31769 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Ocilla, GA, ZIP 31769

Zone 9a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/25, about 268 frost-free days later.

Ocilla 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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 9a around Ocilla has about 13 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Ocilla's last frost

03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Ocilla compares

At roughly 268 frost-free days, Ocilla places 5,772 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 96 of 921.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Ocilla's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Ocilla's dates instead of trusting one.