Georgetown-Quitman County, GA 39867 Frost Dates
39867, near Georgetown-Quitman County, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/15, about 199 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Georgetown-Quitman County, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Georgetown-Quitman 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 Georgetown-Quitman 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 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Georgetown-Quitman County against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 250 frost-free days, Georgetown-Quitman County places 7,544 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 282 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39867: the frost range, on how to read the range around Georgetown-Quitman County's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Georgetown-Quitman County can differ from the 39867 normal.