Crestview, FL 32536 Frost Dates
32536, near Crestview, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/21, roughly 205 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 237 days after the last spring frost.
Crestview 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
Crestview's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Crestview against the rest of the dataset
About 237 days separate Crestview's last and first frost, putting it 9,072 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,602 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32536: local microclimates, on what one yard in Crestview can differ from the 32536 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Crestview's frost date answer different questions.