FrostDateCheck

Belleview, FL 32111 Frost Dates

32111, near Belleview, FL: the frost window

Zone 9b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/26, roughly 151 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/09, roughly 346 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Belleview, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Belleview's growing season runs out in roughly 19 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

The actual range around Belleview's last frost

01/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Belleview against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 346 frost-free days, Belleview places 2,441 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,031 of 1,609.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 32111: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Belleview's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Belleview's dates instead of trusting one.