Whigham, GA 39897 Frost Dates
Whigham, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 255 days after the last spring frost.
Whigham 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 Whigham's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Whigham's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Whigham against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 255 frost-free days, Whigham places 6,965 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 203 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39897's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Whigham can differ from the 39897 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Whigham's frost date answer different questions.