Norman Park, GA 31771 Frost Dates
31771, near Norman Park, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/06, roughly 190 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 268 days after the last spring frost.
Norman Park 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
Norman Park'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.
Norman Park against the rest of the dataset
Norman Park's growing season runs about 268 days, ranking 5,806 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 100 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31771: the frost range, on how to read the range around Norman Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Norman Park can differ from the 31771 normal.