Tallahassee, FL 32399 Frost Dates
Tallahassee, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 03/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 195 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 255 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Tallahassee 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Tallahassee's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tallahassee against the rest of the dataset
About 255 days separate Tallahassee's last and first frost, putting it 6,882 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,566 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32399's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Tallahassee's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Tallahassee's dates instead of trusting one.