Donalsonville, GA 39845 Frost Dates
Donalsonville, GA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
Donalsonville 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Donalsonville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Donalsonville's last frost
03/14 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 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Donalsonville against the rest of the dataset
Donalsonville's growing season runs about 250 days, ranking 7,539 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 280 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39845's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Donalsonville can differ from the 39845 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Donalsonville's frost date answer different questions.