Archer, FL 32618 Frost Dates
32618, near Archer, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/04, roughly 188 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/04, roughly 274 days after the last spring frost.
Archer 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
Archer'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Archer against the rest of the dataset
Archer's growing season runs about 274 days, ranking 5,169 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,489 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32618: local microclimates, on what one yard in Archer can differ from the 32618 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Archer's frost date answer different questions.