Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, GA 31805 Frost Dates
31805, near Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, GA: the frost window
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Cusseta-Chattahoochee County sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Cusseta-Chattahoochee County's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/26 isn't a guarantee
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cusseta-Chattahoochee County against the rest of the dataset
Cusseta-Chattahoochee County's growing season runs about 228 days, ranking 10,787 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 628 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31805: the frost range, on how to read the range around Cusseta-Chattahoochee County's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Cusseta-Chattahoochee County can differ from the 31805 normal.