DeFuniak Springs, FL 32433 Frost Dates
32433, near DeFuniak Springs, FL: the frost window
Around 02/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 184 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/28, roughly 275 days after the last spring frost.
DeFuniak Springs sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
DeFuniak Springs'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 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
DeFuniak Springs's growing season runs about 275 days, ranking 5,125 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,476 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32433: the frost range, on how to read the range around DeFuniak Springs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in DeFuniak Springs can differ from the 32433 normal.