Lake City, FL 32025 Frost Dates
32025, near Lake City, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/24, about 180 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/07, roughly 287 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Lake City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lake City's growing season runs out in roughly 14 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 Lake City's last frost
02/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake City against the rest of the dataset
Lake City's growing season runs about 287 days, ranking 4,583 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,342 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32025: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lake City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake City can differ from the 32025 normal.