Webster County, GA 31824 Frost Dates
31824, near Webster County, GA: the frost window
Around 03/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 199 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 249 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Webster County in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Webster County's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Webster County's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Webster County against the rest of the dataset
Webster County's growing season runs about 249 days, ranking 7,635 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 291 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 31824: the frost range, on how to read the range around Webster County's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Webster County can differ from the 31824 normal.