Blakely, GA 39823 Frost Dates
39823, near Blakely, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 256 days after the last spring frost.
Blakely 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
Blakely'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.
Why 03/13 isn't a guarantee
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Blakely against the rest of the dataset
About 256 days separate Blakely's last and first frost, putting it 6,814 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 174 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39823: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Blakely's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Blakely's dates instead of trusting one.