Blountstown, FL 32424 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Blountstown, FL?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/01, about 185 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/29, about 271 frost-free days later.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Blountstown, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 13 weeks of growing season left in Blountstown before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Blountstown's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Blountstown compares
At roughly 271 frost-free days, Blountstown places 5,447 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,495 of 1,609.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Blountstown can differ from the 32424 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 9a and Blountstown's frost date answer different questions.