DeFuniak Springs, FL 32422 Frost Dates
DeFuniak Springs, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/28, about 184 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/28, roughly 275 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for DeFuniak Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until DeFuniak Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 02/28 isn't a guarantee
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
DeFuniak Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 275 days separate DeFuniak Springs's last and first frost, putting it 5,124 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,475 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32422's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and DeFuniak Springs's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around DeFuniak Springs's dates instead of trusting one.