Reddick, FL 32617 Frost Dates
32617, near Reddick, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/01, roughly 185 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/07, roughly 284 days after the last spring frost.
Reddick 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
Reddick's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Reddick's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/29 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.
Reddick against the rest of the dataset
About 284 days separate Reddick's last and first frost, putting it 4,720 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,398 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32617: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Reddick's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Reddick's dates instead of trusting one.