Colquitt, GA 39837 Frost Dates
39837, near Colquitt, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/07, roughly 191 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 259 days after the last spring frost.
Colquitt 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
Colquitt'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 03/07 isn't a guarantee
03/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 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.
Colquitt against the rest of the dataset
Colquitt's growing season runs about 259 days, ranking 6,593 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 146 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39837: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Colquitt's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Colquitt's dates instead of trusting one.