Perry, FL 32356 Frost Dates
32356, near Perry, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/05, about 189 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 268 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Perry 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
Perry's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/05 isn't a guarantee
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Perry against the rest of the dataset
About 268 days separate Perry's last and first frost, putting it 5,748 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,516 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32356: the frost range, on how to read the range around Perry's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Perry can differ from the 32356 normal.