Lake City, FL 32061 Frost Dates
32061, near Lake City, FL: the frost window
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.
Lake City 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
Lake City's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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.
Lake City against the rest of the dataset
About 255 days separate Lake City's last and first frost, putting it 6,905 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,568 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32061: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake City can differ from the 32061 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Lake City's frost date answer different questions.