Lake Butler, FL 32054 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lake Butler, FL, ZIP 32054
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/13, about 197 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/22, about 255 frost-free days later.
Lake Butler 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Lake Butler has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Lake Butler's last frost
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lake Butler compares
At roughly 255 frost-free days, Lake Butler places 6,947 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,575 of 1,609.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Butler's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Lake Butler can differ from the 32054 normal.