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Jasper, FL 32052 Frost Dates

Jasper, FL: when does the frost end?

Zone 9a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/24, roughly 180 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/07, roughly 287 days after the last spring frost.

Jasper 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 14 weeks until Jasper's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Jasper'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.

Jasper against the rest of the dataset

About 287 days separate Jasper's last and first frost, putting it 4,601 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,348 of 1,609.

Learn more

Before leaning on 32052's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Jasper's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Jasper's dates instead of trusting one.