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Quincy, FL 32351 Frost Dates

Quincy, FL: when does the frost end?

Zone 9a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/14, roughly 198 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.

Quincy 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

With roughly 12 weeks until Quincy's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Quincy's last frost

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.

Quincy against the rest of the dataset

About 250 days separate Quincy's last and first frost, putting it 7,519 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,596 of 1,609.

Learn more

Before leaning on 32351's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Quincy's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Quincy can differ from the 32351 normal.