Sneads, FL 32460 Frost Dates
Sneads, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/01, about 185 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 270 days after the last spring frost.
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 Sneads, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Sneads's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sneads'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.
Sneads against the rest of the dataset
About 270 days separate Sneads's last and first frost, putting it 5,600 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,506 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32460's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sneads can differ from the 32460 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Sneads's frost date answer different questions.