Carrabelle, FL 32322 Frost Dates
32322, near Carrabelle, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/08, about 192 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 262 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Carrabelle in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Carrabelle'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
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carrabelle against the rest of the dataset
About 262 days separate Carrabelle's last and first frost, putting it 6,235 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,535 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32322: the frost range, on how to read the range around Carrabelle's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Carrabelle can differ from the 32322 normal.