Graceville, FL 32440 Frost Dates
Graceville, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/05, about 189 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 260 days after the last spring frost.
Graceville 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Graceville'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
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Graceville against the rest of the dataset
About 260 days separate Graceville's last and first frost, putting it 6,487 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,541 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32440's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Graceville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Graceville's dates instead of trusting one.