Cross City, FL 32628 Frost Dates
Cross City, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 03/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 190 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/26, roughly 263 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 Cross City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Cross City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cross City against the rest of the dataset
Cross City's growing season runs about 263 days, ranking 6,118 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,524 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32628's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Cross City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Cross City's dates instead of trusting one.