Caryville, FL 32427 Frost Dates
32427, near Caryville, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/10, roughly 194 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 259 days after the last spring frost.
Caryville 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
Caryville'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
03/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Caryville against the rest of the dataset
About 259 days separate Caryville's last and first frost, putting it 6,610 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,548 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32427: local microclimates, on what one yard in Caryville can differ from the 32427 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Caryville's frost date answer different questions.