Grand Ridge, FL 32442 Frost Dates
Grand Ridge, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 03/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 185 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 270 days after the last spring frost.
Grand Ridge 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 13 weeks until Grand Ridge's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Grand Ridge's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Grand Ridge against the rest of the dataset
Grand Ridge's growing season runs about 270 days, ranking 5,615 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,509 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32442's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Grand Ridge's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Grand Ridge's dates instead of trusting one.