Live Oak, FL 32062 Frost Dates
32062, near Live Oak, FL: the frost window
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 254 days after the last spring frost.
Live Oak 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
Live Oak'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
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 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.
Live Oak against the rest of the dataset
Live Oak's growing season runs about 254 days, ranking 7,024 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,584 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32062: the frost range, on how to read the range around Live Oak's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Live Oak can differ from the 32062 normal.