Paxton, FL 32538 Frost Dates
32538, near Paxton, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/04, about 188 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/26, roughly 265 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 Paxton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Paxton'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 03/04 isn't a guarantee
03/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/06 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.
Paxton against the rest of the dataset
Paxton's growing season runs about 265 days, ranking 5,999 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,519 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32538: local microclimates, on what one yard in Paxton can differ from the 32538 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Paxton's frost date answer different questions.