High Springs, FL 32643 Frost Dates
32643, near High Springs, FL: the frost window
Around 03/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 197 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 255 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 High Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
High Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
High Springs against the rest of the dataset
High Springs's growing season runs about 255 days, ranking 6,917 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,572 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32643: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and High Springs's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around High Springs's dates instead of trusting one.