Fort White, FL 32038 Frost Dates
Fort White, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 255 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 Fort White, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Fort White's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort White against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 255 frost-free days, Fort White places 6,959 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,578 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32038's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Fort White can differ from the 32038 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Fort White's frost date answer different questions.