Moultrie, GA 31776 Frost Dates
31776, near Moultrie, 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 Moultrie, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Moultrie'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.
Moultrie against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 268 frost-free days, Moultrie places 5,742 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 92 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31776: local microclimates, on what one yard in Moultrie can differ from the 31776 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Moultrie's frost date answer different questions.