Quincy, FL 32353 Frost Dates
32353, near Quincy, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/14, roughly 198 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 255 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
Quincy'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
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 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
At roughly 255 frost-free days, Quincy places 6,916 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,571 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32353: the frost range, on how to read the range around Quincy's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Quincy can differ from the 32353 normal.