Apalachicola, FL 32329 Frost Dates
32329, near Apalachicola, FL: the frost window
Around 02/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 171 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/18, roughly 307 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 Apalachicola, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Apalachicola's growing season runs out in roughly 16 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 Apalachicola's last frost
02/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Apalachicola against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 307 frost-free days, Apalachicola places 3,683 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,284 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32329: the frost range, on how to read the range around Apalachicola's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Apalachicola can differ from the 32329 normal.