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Greensboro, FL 32330 Frost Dates

32330, near Greensboro, FL: the frost window

Zone 9a

Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Greensboro 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

Greensboro'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.

Why 03/14 isn't a guarantee

03/14 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 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Greensboro against the rest of the dataset

Greensboro's growing season runs about 250 days, ranking 7,580 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,600 of 1,609.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 32330: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Greensboro's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Greensboro's dates instead of trusting one.